Turkiye
Mardin Cultural Landscape
Site Info
Official Information
- Full Name
- Mardin Cultural Landscape (ID: 1406)
- Country
- Turkiye
- Status
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On tentative list 2000
Site history
History of Mardin Cultural Landscape
- 2000: Added to Tentative List
- Added to tentative list
- Criteria
Links
- UNESCO
- whc.unesco.org
All Links
UNESCO.org
- whc.unesco.org — whc.unesco.org
News Article
- Jan. 7, 2017 hurriyetdailynews.com — Ancient cistern found under barn in Mardin
Community Information
Travel Information
Recent Connections
News
- hurriyetdailynews.com 01/07/2017
- Ancient cistern found under barn i…
Recent Visitors
Visitors of Mardin Cultural Landscape
- Afshin Iranpour
- Alexander Lehmann
- Ana
- AYB
- bergecn
- Bin
- Can SARICA
- Cluckily
- Corinne Vail
- Erik Jelinek
- ferhatdonmez
- GeorgeIng61
- Gianmarco
- Hanming
- henryjiao18
- Izzet Ege
- John Smaranda
- Kevin McFarland
- Maciej Gil
- Marcobrey
- nan
- Piotr Wasil
- Rafał Kałczuga
- Roman Bruehwiler
- Sascha Grabow
- Sclowitz
- Stanislaw Warwas
- Szucs Tamas
- Thomas Buechler
- tony0001
- Vanessa Buechler
- Yevhen Ivanovych
Community Reviews
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More by coincidence, I ended up staying two nights in Mardin. I had two free days left and wanted to spend them in a warmer region than freezing Anatolia. My return flight out was from Diyarbakir... And the Mardin area seemed to hold a few tentatives of unknown repute.
Looking back, I am really happy for the slight Southern detour. Mardin was a great base to explore the Mesopotamian borderlands of Turkey. The town itself is pleasant and really popular with Turkish tourists. It's built against a scenic rock with the castle on top. Scattered around town you find several old mosques, churches and madrasas along cobble stone streets.
I stayed in a nice historic hotel in the town. While I generally appreciated the experience (best part of my visit to Mardin proper), the 4* hotel left some things to be desired (hot water, internet, new towels). But they helped get a driver to take me around the area the next day.
OUV
As much as Turkish visitors enjoy Mardin, it was deservedly deferred by Icomos and referred by the WHC. It neither scores highly in terms of consistency of the old town (plenty of modern, concrete buildings in between), nor the quality of specific components.
I would assume the Turkish authorities have reached the same conclusion as they created a new nomination for Late Antique and Medieval Churches and Monasteries of Midyat and Surrounding Area. This includes the best component of the Mardin …
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