Ankara - Independence War Museum (I.Turkish Grand National Assembly Building) Ankara - II. Turkish Grand National Assembly Museum of the Republic The building, designed by architect Vedat Tek (1873-1942) and built as the Republican People's Party Headquarters in 1923, was later converted to function as the Assembly building. The two-storey building also has a basement floor. The centrally located two-storey high main assembly hall...

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The Roman Bath  The Roman Bath, situated on Çankırı Street stretching to Yıldırım Beyazit Square from Ulus Square, approximately 400 meters far from Ulus, on the west of the road, about 2.5 meters above the street, was built by the Roman Emperor Caracalla (211-217), the son of Septimius Severus in the 3rd century to the honor of the God of Health, Asklepion. It...

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Ankara - II. Turkish Grand National Assembly Republican Museum The building, designed by architect Vedat Tek (1873-1942) and built as the Republican’s People Party Headquarters in 1923, was later converted to function as the Assembly building. Two-storey building has also a basement floor. Centrally located two-storey high main assembly hall is surrounded by rooms on three sides. The main entrance hall which stretches...

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The Ankara State Museum of Paintings and Sculptures  The Ankara State Museum of Paintings and Sculptures was built in 1927, by the architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu, upon the directive of Atatürk, the great leader of the Turkish Nation.  The Museum, which was opened after the restoration of the building in 1980, has become an institution which comprises all properties of a modern museum,...

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Ankara - Gordion Museum Ankara - Gordion MuseumGORDION MUSEUM Established near a small village with a population of 500, known as Yassıhöyük, in 1963. Today there is a chronological exhibition in Gordion Museum and every period is represented with characteristic examples. In three exhibition vitrines there are works of the the Early Bronze Age and these are followed by artefacts of the Early...

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Ankara - Anatolian Civilizations Museum  THE MUSEUM OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE IN 1997 ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS MUSEUM  History of Buildings  The Anatolian Civilizations Museum is in two Ottoman buildings located near Ankara Castle, in the Atpazarı district of Ankara. One of the buildings is Mahmut Paşa Bedesteni and the other one is Kurşunlu Han. This te Bedesteni was built by Mahmut Paşa, one...

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This temple is supposed to have been built over an earlier temple dedicated to Kybele and Men between 25-20 BC. The Marble Temple measuring 36x54.82 m used to stand on a pediment of several steps about 2m high. It faces the west and it is planned in pseudodipteros with 8 ionic pillars on the short side and 15 pillars on the long side....

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