the heart of anatolia (manisa)

62- MANİSA

Manisa

TRADITIONAL MESİR FESTIVITIES

The Sultan Mosque built in year 1522 by Hafsa Sultan, the mother of Süleyman the

magnificent and wife to Sultan Selim is within the complex of

the buildings adjacent to the mosque. Everyone could to

have a bath in the hammam of the complex free of charge and the poor was given food at the alms house. Various diseases

were treated in the Darussifa – the hospital of the complex.

The mesir paste consisting of 41 types of ingredients many of them being the

spices prepared by Merkez Effendi, the first governor of

Darussifa healed Hafsa Sultan who could not be

cured by the physicians of the palace. Thus, the paste became very famous. This paste which bears the fame of a medicine in the public and is preferred persistently was handed out to people by

time.

According to the widespread belief among the public

those who eat this paste on Nevruz Festival does not have any kind of pain or

ache and are protected from snake beats for one year. At

present, mesir paste scattering ceremony which is

a part of the festivity program starting on the 21st of March catch the attention of both domestic and foreign

tourists.

Welcome to KIRKAĞAÇ

The Melon Festival -KIRKAĞAÇ

Fairy chimneys - Akhisar

Kybele Turgutlu

Sardis, also Sardes -SALİHLİ

The capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia

Traditional Kula

Houses

in the Kula street

The bazaarKULA

boxer Fish Seller

Mount Sipylus

The "Weeping

Rock" associated

with Niobe in Mount

Sipylus

The Yörük, also Yürük or Yuruk

Pottery

The Camel wrestling Festival- Saruhanlı

The Zeybek dance by Efe

Tulipa orphanidea

Music

.. I didn't love you so your heart could belong to strangers.

ibrahimdal@hotmail.comJanuary 2010