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Culture Folk Museum
On the main square near Ortahisars castle, the Culture Folk Museum gets bombarded with tour groups but is a good place to get to grips with the basics of local culture. In the dioramas, with their multilingual interpretive panels, mannequins in headscarves and old mens şapkas (hats
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Tersane
A wooden walkway runs south along the old harbour walls from the Red Tower to the Tersane, the only Seljuk-built shipyard remaining in Turkey. With the waves sloshing through its restored stone arches, its highly atmospheric. From here the walkway continues further along the shorel
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Çeşme Museum
Housed in the castle’s Umur Bey tower, this museum displays archaeological finds (mostly coins) from nearby Erythrae (now Ildırı), the Bağlararası Bronze Age harbour settlement (tools, a curious stone phallus) and the Roman era (superb gold diadems). Much is made of the attack by R
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Eski Kahta (Kocahisar) & Yeni Kale
About 5km from the bridge is a 1km detour to Eski Kahta . There was once a palace here, but whats now evident are the ruins of a 13th-century Mamluk castle, Yeni Kale (New Fortress). The castle was being renovated at the time of writing and due to reopen in 2015.After Yeni Kale, cr
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Kars Culture & Art Association
Local historian Vedats paint shop doubles as a small library and a museum about the Molokans (milk-drinkers in Russian) order, to which his grandmother belonged. The peaceful Christian group disagreed with the Russian Orthodox Church and came to Kars during the Russian occupation.
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Uludağ
Whether its winter or summer, its worth taking a cable-car ride up the Great Mountain (2543m) to take advantage of the views and the cool, clear air of Uludağ National Park . As well as one of Turkeys most popular ski resorts (the season runs from December to early April), the park
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Mevlevihane Museum
The Mevlevihane Camii, a 13th-century Seljuk mosque, was a dervish lodge when Sultan Veled (son of dervish founder Celaleddin Rumi) made Afyon the empires most important Mevlevi centre after Konya. Todays mosque (1908), rebuilt for the ill-fated Sultan Abdülhamid II, has twin domes
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Tekir Ambarı
The Tekir Ambarı is an ancient cistern carved from rock that can be entered via a spiral staircase. To reach the cistern, head to the junction of İnönü Bulvarı and Menderes Caddesi, then walk up the alleyway (348 Sokak) to the left of the Küçük Hacı Kaşaplar butcher shop. Turn left
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Roman Theatre
The spectacular Roman theatre, capable of seating more than 12,000 spectators, was built in two stages by the emperors Hadrian and Septimius Severus. Much of the stage survives, along with some of the decorative panels and the front-row box seats for VIPs. It was restored by Italia
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Cleopatras Gate
Walk 1km southwest of the Old City along İsmetpaşa Bulvarı to get to the Roman Kancık Kapısı, literally the Gate of the Bitch, but better known as Cleopatras Gate. Despite the name it has nothing to do with the Egyptian queen, although she is thought to have had a rendezvous with M
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Rize Castle
Built by the Genoese on the steep hill at the back of town, Rizes ancient kale has both a Lower Castle and the so-called Inner Castle above it. The latter contains a cafe with sweeping coastal views. To reach the castle head west of the main square along Atatürk Caddesi. Some 50m p
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Martyrium of St Philip the Apostle
From the theatre, take one of the rough tracks heading uphill and eventually youll come to the extraordinary octagonal Martyrium of St Philip the Apostle, built on the site where its believed that St Philip was martyred. The arches of the eight individual chapels are all marked wit
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Niğde Museum
Niğde Museum houses a well-presented selection of finds from the Assyrian city of Acemhöyük near Aksaray, through the Hittite and Phrygian ages to sculptures from Tyana (now Kemerhisar), the former Roman centre and Hittite capital 19km southwest of Niğde. Several mummies are exhibi
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Çırağan Palace
Not satisfied with the architectural exertions of his predecessor at Dolmabahçe, Sultan Abdül Aziz (r 1861–76) built his own grand residence at Çırağan, only 1.5km away. Here, architect Nikoğos Balyan, who had also worked on Dolmabahçe, created an interesting building melding Europ
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Galerist
Owned by architect Melkan Gürsel Tabanlıoğlu and serious (ie mega-moneyed) art collector Taha Tatlıcı, Galerist occupies the 1st floor of a beautiful 18th-century building in one of the citys most fashionable enclaves. It shows Turkish and international artists working in a variety
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Bürüciye Medresesi
Just east of the Kale Camii, reached through a monumental Seljuk gateway, is the Bürüciye Medresesi, built to teach positive sciences in 1271 by Iranian businessman Muzaffer Bürücerdi, whose tiled tomb is inside. The tea garden in the courtyard, where exhibitions are held and class
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Güllükdağı Termessos National Park
This national park, which surrounds the Termessos site, abounds in wildlife including mountain goats, speckled deer, golden eagles and 680 species of plant (80 of them endemic). At the entrance, the small Flora & Fauna Museum (admission included with the Termessos ₺5 entry fee)
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Mardin Museum
This superbly restored late-19th-century mansion sports carved pillars and elegant arcades on the upper floor. Inside, it has a small but well-displayed collection including a finely detailed 7th-century-BC Assyrian vase and finds from Girnavaz, a Bronze Age site 4km north of Nusay
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Tea Garden
Rizes fragrant and floral tea garden is next to the Çaykur tea factory; 20 minutes walk above town via the steep main road (Zihni Derin Caddesi) leading uphill behind the Şeyh Camii. Enjoy the superb views with a fresh brew of local leaves – a typical Rize experience. Taxis charge
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Red Tower
This five-storey octagonal defence tower, measuring nearly 30m in diameter, more than 30m in height and with a central cistern within for water storage, looms over the harbour at the lower end of İskele Caddesi. Constructed in 1226 by Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I (who also bui
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