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Karakuş Tümülüs
Highway D360, marked for Nemrut Dağı Milli Parkı, starts in Kahta next to the Kommagene Hotel. After a few kilometres, the road forks left 1.5km to Karakuş Tümülüs, built in 36 BC. A handful of columns ring the mound – there were more, but the limestone blocks were used by the Roma
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Tarihi Sinop Cezaevi
The cells, empty corridors, exercise yards and childrens reform school of this hulking former prison within the fortress are haunting, particularly if youve seen Midnight Express, Alan Parkers frightening 1978 film about an American drug dealer trapped in the Turkish penal system.
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Kervansaray (Church of the Holy Apostles)
The Church of the Holy Apostles (Arak Elots Kilisesi) dates from 1031, but after the Seljuks took the city in 1064, they added a gateway with a fine dome and used the building as a caravanserai – hence its name.Its fairly well preserved, with decorative carvings, porthole windows,
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Ethnography Museum
The Ethnography Museum occupies the former St Roche Hospital just beside the Archaeology Museum. The lovely, old four-storey stone building houses colourful displays (including dioramas, photos and information panels) of local arts, crafts and customs. You’ll learn about everything
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Museum of the Republican History
This museum celebrates Atatürk and the Turkish Republic through hundreds of photos, paintings and collages covering seminal events like the battles of Gallipoli, Sakarya and Dumlupınar. Models of Turkish WWI warships are displayed, as are over 50 portraits of Atatürk, and visitors
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Edirne Turkish and Islamic Art Museum
The small rooms of the elegant darül Hadis (Hadith school) in the northeastern corner of the Selimiyes courtyard house an eclectic collection of Ottoman-era artefacts including calligraphy, weaponry, glass, woodwork, ceramics, costumes and jewellery. Some of the rooms feature manne
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Archaeological Museum
Kayseris small archaeological museum is a minor magpies nest, featuring finds from nearby Kültepe (ancient Kanesh, chief city of the Hatti people and the first Hittite capital). Other exhibits include a stunning sarcophagus illustrating Hercules labours, and a fascinatingly creepy
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Akbank Art Centre
Turkeys big banks and philanthropic trusts vie with each other to be seen as the greatest sponsor of the arts. İstiklal is a showcase for their generosity, and with this venue Akbank joins SALT Beyoğlu and ARTER in offering a showcase for the citys thriving arts scene. It has an ar
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Chez Galip Hair Museum
Not content with being home to some fine ceramic art, this pottery workshop and gallery also hosts Cappadocias infamous hair museum. Yes, thats right: its a museum dedicated to locks of hair that past visitors have left here for posterity – roughly 16,000 samples of hair cover the
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Hatuniye Mahallesi
The Hatuniye Mahallesi is Amasyas wonderful neighbourhood of restored Ottoman houses, interspersed with good modern reproductions to make a harmonious whole.The Hazeranlar Konağı , constructed in 1865 and restored in 1979, was built by Hasan Talat, the accountant of governor-poet Z
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Roman Baths
Beyond the Arch of Domitian you come to the ruins of the Roman baths, then to the Appian Way of Hierapolis, an extraordinary necropolis (cemetery), extending several kilometres to the north, with many striking, even stupendous, tombs in all shapes and sizes. In particular, look out
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Prytaneum
Two of six original Doric columns mark the entrance to the ruined Prytaneum (town hall) and city treasury. Here and elsewhere in Ephesus, note the differences between the Ionian Greeks heavily ornamented, spiralling columns, and their smooth, unadorned Roman counterparts. Both coex
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Yivli Minare
Antalyas symbol is the Yivli Minare, a handsome and distinctive fluted minaret erected by the Seljuk Sultan Aladdin Keykubad I in the early 13th century. The adjacent mosque (1373) is still in use. Within the Yivli Minare complex is the heavily restored Mevlevi Tekke (whirling derv
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Sazova Park
West of the centre on the Küthaya road, this area of cleared sazova (cane field) has been turned into a family-friendly paradise of fresh air and rolling lawns. The themepark-worthy attractions include a fairytale castle complete with staff in medieval garb, a pirate ship, dinky op
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Church of the Koimesis
Only some foundations remain, but the church was once famous as the burial place of the Byzantine emperor Theodore I (Lascaris). Built around 800 and reconstructed after a mid-11th century earthquake, its İzniks only church that was never converted into a mosque; unsurprisingly, it
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Bulak Mencilis Mağarası
Deep in the Gürleyik hills 10km northwest of Safranbolu, the impressive Bulak Mencilis Mağarası cave network opened to the public a decade ago, although troglodytes may have lived here many millennia before that. You can walk through 400m of the 6km-long network, enough to reveal a
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Aya İrini
Commissioned by Justinian in the 540s, this Byzantine church is almost exactly as old as its near neighbour, Aya Sofya. Used as an arsenal for centuries, it is now open to visitors but the entrance fee is exorbitant considering the fact that there are no exhibits inside. The serene
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Yılankale
Built in the mid-13th century, when this area was part of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia, Yılankale took its name from a serpent once entwined in the coat of arms above the entrance. From the car park theres a well-laid path for 100m then a rough trail. Reaching the castles highes
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Şehzade Mehmet Mosque
Süleyman the Magnificent built this mosque between 1543 and 1548 as a memorial to his son, Mehmet, who died of smallpox in 1543 at the age of 22. It was the first important mosque to be designed by Mimar Sinan. Although not one of his best works, it has a lovely setting, two beauti
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Aya Sofya
Originally a great Justinianic church, Aya Sofya (Church of the Divine Wisdom) is now a mosque, surrounded by a rose garden. The building encompasses ruins of three different structures. A mosaic floor and mural of Jesus, Mary and John the Baptist survive from the original church.
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