Two-day trip to Turkey
Valid for the whole year
|Smyrna
Gathering at Chios customs office at 7:30 am. Then departure to Cesme at 08:15 and arrival at Cesme port after 35 minutes.
Time & Location
Valid for the whole year
Smyrna, Izmir, Izmir Province, Turkey
About the event
SmyrnaDay 1:
Gathering at Chios customs office at 7:30 am. Checking passports (or new type of IDs), registration on the passenger lists (check in), boarding the ship and departure to at 08:15. Arrival at the port of Cesme after 35 minutes and immediate boarding of a coach bound for the City of Smyrna, the third largest city in Turkey, where for tens of centuries the heart of Asia Minor Hellenism beat. Passing through Alatsata, a purely Greek Orthodox village before 1922, which still preserves the traditional Aegean architecture and Vourla, also an important cradle of Hellenism in Asia Minor, arrival in Smyrna after about 1 hour.Chesme
Starting from Kokargiali, Karadina (Enopi) and Karatasi, we arrive at Konak Square, where we will see the clock – symbol of the city and the Government Palace with the Ionic elements on its facade, where Metropolitan Chrysostomos was martyred. Then we will pass…