Konya Mevlana Museum And Catalhoyuk Daily Tour | All Turkey Tours

1 Day.: Konya Mevlana Museum And Catalhoyuk Daily Tour

09:00 Am After Breakfast at your hotel in Konya, our tour guide will meet you at your hotel reception for Konya Mevlana Museum And Catalhoyuk Daily Tour and continue to your day tour

Konya Mevlana Museum And Catalhoyuk Daily Tour covers the sites as follow.

Mevlana Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the Whirling Dervishes.You will visit all available section in Mevlana Museum such as Matbah (Kitchen), tombs, Tilavet Chamber (Quran Reading And Chanting), Semâ-Hâne (Ritual Hall).

Selimiye Mosque is located next door to Mevlana Museum. The mosque was commissioned by, and named for, Sultan Selim II (1566-74) in the Ottoman style. Construction began in 1558 when Selim was still a prince and was completed shortly after he became sultan, in 1567.

Meram is one of country side of Konya is fully with the historical monuments and greenish.

Catalhoyuk is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan. Catalhoyuk was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC. It is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date. Afterwards, continue to visit Archaeological Museum in Konya. Konya Archaeological Museum has an excellent collection of ancient artifacts ranging from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Era. The museum opened in its present location in 1962. Among the displays are many ancient Roman sarcophagi, Greek altars and pottery, important inscriptions in Latin and Greek, Byzantine mosaics.

17:00 PM At the end of the Konya Mevlana Museum And Catalhoyuk Daily Tour our tour guide will take you back to your hotel. Arrival will be the end of the day tour in Konya.