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Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library
Built into the wall of Gülhane Park, the Alay Köşkü (Parade Kiosk) is where the sultan would sit and watch the periodic parades of troops and trade guilds that commemorated great holidays and military victories. It is now open to the public as a literature museum and library named
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Paşaoğlu Mansion & Ethnography Museum
This interesting museum occupies an ornate mansion (1896) 500m northwest (and uphill) from the main square Cumhuriyet Meydanı past a bazaar; look for signs reading Müze – Museum. The recreated 1st-floor rooms – large bedrooms, bathrooms, lounges – are reminders that upper-class Ott
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Other Ruins
Scramble down the path from the Temple of Athena or walk along the road to the harbour to find the necropolis . Assos’ sarcophagi (from the Greek, ‘flesh-eaters’) were famous. According to Pliny the Elder, the stone was caustic and ‘ate’ the flesh off the deceased in 40 days. To th
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Sinop Fortress
Open to attack from the sea, Sinop was first fortified by the Hittites around 2000 BC. The existing walls are additions made by the Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans of those erected in 72 BC by Pontic King Mithridates VI. At one time the walls, some 3m thick, were more than
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Ulu Cami
Diyarbakırs most impressive mosque is the Ulu Cami, built in 1091 by a Seljuk sultan. Incorporating elements from an earlier Byzantine church on the site, it was restored in 1155 after a fire. The rectangular layout is Arabic, rather than Ottoman. The entrance portal, adorned with
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Sultan Alaadın Camii
This gem of a mosque is squirreled away in the back alleys of Antalya. It began life as the Greek Orthodox Panhagia Church in 1834 and was converted to a mosque in 1958. Just inside the courtyard gate, you can climb up the spiral staircase of the churchs old bell tower. Inside the
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Miletus Museum
Miletus Museum exhibits finds from the site – ancient glass, pottery and votive stelae, statues (including river god Meander in repose, taken from the Baths of Faustina), numerous classical, Roman and Byzantine coins, and exquisite gold pendants, necklaces and rings from ancient to
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İznik Museum
The city museum is housed in a soup kitchen that Sultan Murat I built for his mother, Nilüfer Hatun, in 1388. Born a Byzantine princess, Nilüfer was given to Sultan Orhan to cement a diplomatic alliance.The museums grounds contain marble statuary, while its lofty halls display orig
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Galata Tower
The cylindrical Galata Tower stands sentry over the approach to new İstanbul. Constructed in 1348, it was the tallest structure in the city for centuries, and it still dominates the skyline north of the Golden Horn. Its vertiginous upper balcony offers 360-degree views of the city,
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Beehive Houses
Harran is famous for its beehive houses, a design dating back to the 3rd century BC, although the present examples were mostly constructed within the last 200 years. The design evolved partly in response to a lack of wood for roofing and partly because the ruins provided a source o
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Amisos Antik Kenti
If youd like to see where the Amisos treasure in the Archaeology & Ethnography Museum came from in 1995, head west for 3km to Batıpark (West Park) on the coast and board the Samsun Amisos Hill Cable Car , which will take you in just four minutes to the site of two mounds laid o
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Museum of Health
The extremely beautiful darüşşifa (hospital) and tip medresesi (medical school) in the Sultan Beyazıt II mosque complex now house this museum tracing the history of Islamic medicine. Overseen by Trakya Üniversitesi, the museum highlights innovative treatments developed and utilised
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Atatürk Mansion
Nestled in the leafy, hilltop neighbourhood of Soǧuksu 5km southwest of Atatürk Alanı, this three-storey, blindingly white mansion (1903) has fine views and lovely gardens. Built for a wealthy Trabzon banking family in the Black Sea style popular in the Crimea, it was bequeathed to
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Özkonak Underground City
About 15km north of Avanos, the village of Özkonak hosts a smaller version of the underground cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu, with the same wine reservoirs and rolling stone doors. Although Özkonak underground city is neither as dramatic nor as impressive as the larger ones, but
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Church of the Virgin Mary
The Ephesus car park is ringed with çay bahçesis (tea houses), restaurants and souvenir shops, and to the right of the road are the ruins of the Church of the Virgin Mary, also called the Double Church. The original building was a museum, a Hall of the Muses - a place for lectures,
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Ulu Camii
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Büyük Kilise Camii
The impressive facade of the Büyük Kilise Camii (Mosque of the Great Church) is the first major building after the Monastery Valley ticket office. Built as the Church of St Gregory of Nazianzus in AD 385, it was restored in 1835 and turned into a mosque following the population exc
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Sultanhanı
The largest caravanserai in Anatolia, the Sultanhanı was constructed in 1229, during the reign of the Seljuk sultan Alaaddin Keykubad I, and restored in 1278 after a fire. Through the wonderful carved entrance in the 50m-long east wall, there is a raised mescit (prayer room) in the
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SALT Galata
The descriptor cultural centre is used a lot in İstanbul, but is often a misnomer. Here at SALT Galata it really does apply. Housed in a magnificent 1892 bank building designed by Alexandre Vallaury and cleverly adapted by local architectural firm Mimarlar Tasarım, this cutting-edg
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Great Theatre
Originally built under Hellenistic King Lysimachus, the Great Theatre was reconstructed by the Romans between AD 41 and AD 117. However, they incorporated original design elements, including the ingenious shape of the cavea (seating area). Seating rows are pitched slightly steeper
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