Izmir - Turkey
Once the ancient city of Smyrna, now Izmir, is the third largest city in Turkey with a population of around 4 million people. Nowadays it is a modern, developed, and busy commercial center, set around a huge bay and surrounded by mountains. The average number of sunny days reaches up to almost 300 a year!
It was always a cosmopolitan city, with a Greek Orthodox majority along with Armenians, Jews and Muslims. Numerous languages could be heard in the streets, spoken by locals and visiting traders.
