History and Culture of Mardin
Mardin is more than a beautiful town: it is a living archive of the civilizations that have passed through southeastern Anatolia.

Mardin is more than a beautiful town: it is a living archive of the civilizations that have passed through southeastern Anatolia.

Mardin is the perfect base for exploring the plains and plateaus of southeastern Turkey, a region packed with monasteries, ancient cities, and stone towns that deserve a full day each.

Mardin’s kitchen is one of Turkey’s most distinctive, a meeting point of Turkish, Arab, Syriac, and Kurdish cooking shaped by the stone city and the fertile plain below.

Mardin is a city that unfolds on a hill, its honey-colored stone houses stacked in terraces above the great Mesopotamian plain.

Mardin is a city that you experience rather than visit, and its greatest attraction is simply the place itself: the golden stone, the terraced lanes, the enormous plain below.

Mardin is one of the most beautiful cities in Turkey, and one of the most surprising.
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