Colorful shops are set in the festival introducing Aegean herbs to Turkey and to the world. You can see closely various herbs growing in Aegean Region in Alaçatı Herbs Festival. You can find tens of herbs such as artichoke famous in Çeşme, lady's thistle, cibes herb, helxine, wild radish, glasswort and thyme etc. in Alaçatı Herbs Festival. Within the festival, many activities are organized from trip of recognizing and collecting herbs to cooking workshop, from seminar of nutrition with wild weeds and plants to concerts. Cortege of the festival including sessions and workshops of dignified academicians and cooks present vivid sceneries and hundreds of people go along with the cortege. You can taste the meals made of herbs in the booths established during the festival. The herb meals which you should especially taste are herb pastry, kalbur desert with herb and herb rice. At the end of the Herbs Festival, the competitions are organized in Alaçatı Amphitheater in the branches for collecting the most herbs and cooking the best herb meal. It is a festival preferred by many visitors from surrounding provinces and even from abroad. It presents opportunity to meet new people by virtue of activities and competitions. Every year, millions of visitors watch the festival in which celebrities among the art and music world visit as well as travelers.
REİSDERE KITE FESTIVAL:
Martı Kite Club provides supports with International Kite Festival organized in Reisdere Quarter as realized in every year. Professional Kite Runners from Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and Indonesia present visual feasts with various kite desined by themselves in a considerable extent. While professional kite runners organize a kite making workshop for children 1 day before the festival, child also ride their own kites and the ones delivered by Çeşme Municipality free of charge during the festival and have fun to repletion.
GERMİYAN BREAD FESTIVAL:
There are lots of programs from exhibition to session, from workshop to concert in Germiyan Bread Festival. The local producers can exhibit their products and local tastes in the booths in the festival to be organized in Germiyan, the village which is the candidate for Slow food in Turkey for the first time. The traditional tastes belonging to Germiyan make debut in the booths. The workshops of local tastes such as Şeker içi (Groom Cookie), Kopanisti Cheese, sessions, shows belonging to local culture and Bread Competition which has become traditional give a magic touch in the festival. The local meals which have been cooked in Germiyan cuisine and are known only a few people, and the clothes which the community dwellers wore in the past, and the kitchenwares are brought from past to present and are exhibited to the visitors of the festival.
DALYAN LOVE FESTIVAL:
The Love Festival organized in Dalyan Quarter of Çeşme consists of activities such as concerts, theatres and dance shows, shopping booths where hand-made products are sold and local tastes. Poetry recitation and concert activities are organized as well as theatre and dance shows. During the festival, you can enjoy the cultural activities, taste local meals and visit Çeşme Alaçatı after the festival.
ÇEŞME FESTIVAL:
There are various activities such as concerts, dance shows, workshops and cuisine in Çeşme Festival. Giant concert programs are organized in the evening after the activities in Alaçatı, Ilıca, Ildırı, Çiftlikköy, Reisdere Quarters of Çeşme and Çeşme Cumhuriyet Square. It was organized in 1982 as Çeşme Sea Festival for the first time. Çeşme International Song Competition started in 1984, and continued to 1990. For the first time after 25 year, Çeşme Festival was organized again in 2019.
ILDIR CULTURE AND ART FESTIVAL:
Ildırı Culture and Art Festival aims to create awareness on the local community and visitors about the ancient city Erythrai whose archeological excavations have been proceeded, and to maintain historical sustainability and to provide economic development in the place where the local community live. The festival is made at the end of August. Being a taste stop with artichoke, fish restaurants, lokma and breakfast places, Ildırı has a unique beauty with the sunset scenery. There are concerts and theatres and ceramic workshops in the festival where the woman of Ildırı sell their local products and handicraft items are exhibited during the festival.
OVACIK AGRICULTURE AND MASTIC SHEEP FESTIVAL:
Ovacık Agriculture and Mastic Sheep Festival aims to maintain characteristic mastic sheep and increase the number of breeders as well as protecting and growing endemic plants such as melon, mastic tree, white onion, karakılçık wheat, thyme and lavender.
