{"id":6332,"date":"2018-02-07T11:38:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T08:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:08:51","slug":"visitors-throng-museums-historic-sites-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/visitors-throng-museums-historic-sites-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors throng museums, historic sites in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6333\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/topkapi-palace-istanbul.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors throng museums, historic sites in Turkey\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/topkapi-palace-istanbul.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/topkapi-palace-istanbul-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/topkapi-palace-istanbul-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/topkapi-palace-istanbul-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Topkap\u0131 Palace Istanbul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Nearly 878,000 people visited Turkish museums and archaeological sites in January, up 57 percent from the same month last year, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced.<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to visitors, museum and historic sites also took in more revenue, said the ministry website.<\/p>\n<p>In January revenues from Turkish museums and archaeological sites totaled 14.5 million Turkish liras ($3.84 million), skyrocketing 236 percent from the same month in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>January&#8217;s most-visited places in Turkey were Istanbul\u2019s Topkapi Palace Museum and Hagia Sophia Museum, the Mevlana Rumi Museum in the central province of Konya, Denizli Hierapolis (Pamukkale) in the western province of Denizli, and the ancient city of Ephesus in the Aegean province of Izmir.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile sales of the Muzekart (a general admission card to museums and historic sites) in January ballooned 167 percent compared to January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This January, revenue from Muzekart sales totaled 3.6 million Turkish liras ($965,000).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008, when it was first offered, some 59,000 Muzecarts have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>Muzekart enables people to visit at least 300 ministry-affiliated museums and archaeological sites and is valid for one year.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 878,000 people visited Turkish museums and archaeological sites in January, up 57 percent from the same month last year, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,118,7],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-culture-art","category-tourism","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8338,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/8338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}