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BY MUSTAFA CAN OZTURK

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Maiden Castle

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Alahan monastery

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Mersin's sea

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Mumbar

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Mersin is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is part of an interurban agglomeration – the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area – and lies on the western part of Çukurova, a geographical, economical, and cultural region. The city was named after the aromatic plant Myrsine (in Greek Μυρσίνη) in the family Primulaceae, a myrtle that grows in abundance in the area (Turkish: mersin); the 17th-century traveler Evliya Çelebi wrote that there was also a clan named Mersinoğulları [2]Mersin is an important hub of Turkey's economy, and Turkey's largest seaport is located in the city. Mersin's nickname within Turkey is "Pearl of the Mediterranean" (Turkish: Akdeniz'in İncisi) and the city hosted the 2013 Mediterranean Games. Mersin is the provincial capital of the eponymous Mersin Province of Turkey.Mersin has a typical Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa), a type of subtropical climate with hot and dry summers and warm and wet winters. Mersin has its highest rainfall in winter; mainly December and January which gives Mersin its healthy, nurtured coastline. The driest months are summer with hardly any rainfall at all. 

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Mersin is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is part of an interurban agglomeration – the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area – and lies on the western part of Çukurova, a geographical, economical, and cultural region. The city was named after the aromatic plant Myrsine (in Greek Μυρσίνη) in the family Primulaceae, a myrtle that grows in abundance in the area (Turkish: mersin); the 17th-century traveler Evliya Çelebi wrote that there was also a clan named Mersinoğulları [2]Mersin is an important hub of Turkey's economy, and Turkey's largest seaport is located in the city. Mersin's nickname within Turkey is "Pearl of the Mediterranean" (Turkish: Akdeniz'in İncisi) and the city hosted the 2013 Mediterranean Games. Mersin is the provincial capital of the eponymous Mersin Province of Turkey.Mersin has a typical Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa), a type of subtropical climate with hot and dry summers and warm and wet winters. Mersin has its highest rainfall in winter; mainly December and January which gives Mersin its healthy, nurtured coastline. The driest months are summer with hardly any rainfall at all. 

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Ciger Kebap

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Kerebich

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Shalgam Water

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Tantuni

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Kerebic

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Come for the climate. Mediterranean climate, you do not get cold in Mersin. A cold person comes to Mersin and does not get cold in Mersin.There is history in Mersin. Hittite, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman architectural monuments ...I come to Mersin for the plant. Endemic plants ... All Taurus plants are plant-rich. It is possible to see very beautiful examples of the plant fauna of Turkey.Come to Mersin for the sea, come to Mersin to walk in the mountains.In Mersin you come to see the nomadic cult.Ancient information comes to refresh.You come to see the geography where your religion is blending.Just below the Bilal Habesh Masjid it is time to see the way that St. Paul, the Christian-styler, walked.From Caliph Memun's grave you come to see the street where Cleopatra walked.From Frederick Barbarossa's geography, he comes to Antakya, where Richard the Lionheart is surrounded.To see the footsteps of Holy Jerusalem, go to the Castle of the Savior, the Castle of the Soviets opposite the Castle.From Alahan Monastery, you come to Uzuncaburç flat to take a day walk.400 Byzantine is a place to walk for hundreds of tracks in our village, on those tracks.

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Come for the climate. Mediterranean climate, you do not get cold in Mersin. A cold person comes to Mersin and does not get cold in Mersin.There is history in Mersin. Hittite, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman architectural monuments ...I come to Mersin for the plant. Endemic plants ... All Taurus plants are plant-rich. It is possible to see very beautiful examples of the plant fauna of Turkey.Come to Mersin for the sea, come to Mersin to walk in the mountains.In Mersin you come to see the nomadic cult.Ancient information comes to refresh.You come to see the geography where your religion is blending.Just below the Bilal Habesh Masjid it is time to see the way that St. Paul, the Christian-styler, walked.From Caliph Memun's grave you come to see the street where Cleopatra walked.From Frederick Barbarossa's geography, he comes to Antakya, where Richard the Lionheart is surrounded.To see the footsteps of Holy Jerusalem, go to the Castle of the Savior, the Castle of the Soviets opposite the Castle.From Alahan Monastery, you come to Uzuncaburç flat to take a day walk.400 Byzantine is a place to walk for hundreds of tracks in our village, on those tracks.

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Cuisine:The local cuisine is famous, and restaurants specializing on the Mersin Cuisine can be found all over Turkey, and includes specialties such as:•	Ciger kebap, (liver on mangal), typically served on lavash with an assortment of meze at 12 skewers at a time,•	Tantuni, a hot lavaş wrap consisting of julienned lamb stir-fried on a sac on a hint of cottonseed oil,•	Bumbar, lamb intestines filled with a mixture of rice, meat and pistachios, that are served either grilled or steamed,•	Cezerye, a lokum made of sweet carrots, covered in ground pistachios or coconuts,•	Karsambaç, peeled ice, (or even snow) served with a topping of pekmez or honey,•	Künefe, a wood-oven baked dessert based on a mixture of cheese and pastry; famous all throughout the Levant,•	Kerebich, a shortbread filled with pistachio paste, also famous throughout the Levant,•	shalgam water, a beverage made of fermented red carrots, very popular in Southern Turkey.

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Cuisine:The local cuisine is famous, and restaurants specializing on the Mersin Cuisine can be found all over Turkey, and includes specialties such as:•	Ciger kebap, (liver on mangal), typically served on lavash with an assortment of meze at 12 skewers at a time,•	Tantuni, a hot lavaş wrap consisting of julienned lamb stir-fried on a sac on a hint of cottonseed oil,•	Bumbar, lamb intestines filled with a mixture of rice, meat and pistachios, that are served either grilled or steamed,•	Cezerye, a lokum made of sweet carrots, covered in ground pistachios or coconuts,•	Karsambaç, peeled ice, (or even snow) served with a topping of pekmez or honey,•	Künefe, a wood-oven baked dessert based on a mixture of cheese and pastry; famous all throughout the Levant,•	Kerebich, a shortbread filled with pistachio paste, also famous throughout the Levant,•	shalgam water, a beverage made of fermented red carrots, very popular in Southern Turkey.

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Mersin HiltonSA Divan Mersin Ulu Resort Hotel