The city’s location and climate conditions make it an ideal location for growing world-class roses.
Locals and tourists alike flocked to Turkey's capital of roses, Isparta, to participate in the third annual Festival of Roses and Carpets.
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The city’s location and climate conditions make it an ideal location for growing world-class roses.
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Isparta has been growing the Damask rose for the last 125 years.
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The Damask roses is picked between May and June.
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Isparta houses 20 rose factories, which produce approximately 10 tons of rose flowers annually.
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Isparta exports the purest form of rose oil to France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Saudia Araba, the UK and the U.S.
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The Damask rose grown in Isparta is also used for tea, cooking and rose water.
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Apart from Isparta, the only other place in the world that grows the Damask rose in such high quality and capacity is the Kazanluk valley, in Bulgaria.
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The festival runs for two days.
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