Kula

Kula is a metropolis and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean location of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, populace of the district is 52,986 of which 24,217 live within the town of Kula. The district covers a place of 918 km2, and the town lies at an elevation of 665 m. As of 1920, Kula's main industry become carpet making. The district is famend for the cone-fashioned volcanic rock formations, numbering at approximately 80, inside the nearby Yanıkyore vicinity, also every so often still noted, including in Turkey, beneath the Greek call of Katakekaumene, which has the same that means.

Increasingly brought to the eye of a wider public in current years as a herbal interest, different these days coined terms to explain the place consist of "Cappadocia of the Aegean Region, Turkey" or even "Kuladocia". Kula Volcanic Geopark changed into conventional and certificated by way of UNESCO on 6 September 2013 at 37th UNESCO general convention in Naples. So that Kula Volcanic Geopark joined UNESCO Global Geopark Network. Also this patent became the first geopark of Turkey, 58th geopark in Europe, and 96th geopark in the global.