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Alanya Castle
Presiding with stately grace over the clutter of bars and souvenir shops below is Alanyas awesome Seljuk-era castle with views across the city and out to the Pamphylian plain and Cilician mountains.Right at the top of the castle area is the İç Kale (inner fortress). Within are plen
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Amasya Museum
This superb museum packs in beautifully laid out treasures from the Bronze Age, Hittite, Pontic and Roman eras. Look out for the famous Statuette of Amasya, a bronze figure of the Hittite storm god Teshub. The highlight though is a collection of mummies dating from the 14th-century
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Akdamar Kilisesi
One of the marvels of Armenian architecture is the carefully restored Akdamar Kilisesi. Its perched on an island 3km out in Lake Van. In 921 Gagik Artzruni, King of Vaspurkan, built a palace, church and monastery on the island. Little remains of the palace and monastery, but the ch
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Çifte Minareli Medrese
East of the city centre, this building dates from the 1200s when Erzurum was a wealthy Seljuk city, before suffering attack and devastation by the Mongols in 1242. The twin brick minarets are decorated with eye-catching small blue tiles. Walk to the back of the building to see the
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Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaic Museum
This modern museum showcases superb mosaics unearthed at the Roman site of Belkıs-Zeugma before the Birecik Dam flooded most of the site forever. The second floor has excellent views of virtually complete floor mosaics retrieved from Roman villas, providing a detailed insight into
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Kaunos
Founded in the 9th century BC, Kaunos (or Caunus) was an important Carian city by 400 BC. Right on the border with Lycia, its culture reflected aspects of both empires.The theatre is very well preserved. On the hill above there are remnants of an acropolis and fabulous views over t
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Tombs of the Pontic Kings
Looming above the northern bank of the river is a sheer rock face with the conspicuous cut-rock Tombs of the Pontic Kings. The tombs, cut deep into the limestone as early as the 4th century BC, were used for cult worship of the deified rulers. There are more than 20 (empty) tombs i
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Grand Bazaar
The colourful and chaotic Grand Bazaar is the heart of İstanbuls Old City and has been so for centuries. Starting as a small vaulted bedesten (warehouse) built by order of Mehmet the Conqueror in 1461, it grew to cover a vast area as laneways between the bedesten , neighbouring sho
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Antalya Museum
On no account should you miss this comprehensive museum with exhibitions covering everything from the Stone and Bronze Ages to Byzantium. The Hall of Regional Excavations exhibits finds from ancient cities in Lycia (such as Patara and Xanthos) and Pamphylia while the Hall of Gods d
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Şifaiye Medresesi
Dating to 1218, this was one of the most important medical schools built by the Seljuks and was once Anatolias foremost hospital. But it wasnt just built to help the sick. It was built to look good, and 800 years later it still impresses.The decoration features stylised sun/lion an
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Çorum Museum
By the time a traveller reaches Çorum, theres a good chance theyll have seen more than enough small town museums, but dont make the assumption that Çorums version of the same is not worth visiting – quite the opposite in fact. This excellent museum, one of the best in central Turke
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İstiklal Caddesi
Once called the Grand Rue de Pera but renamed İstiklal (Independence) in the early years of the Republic, Beyoğlus premier boulevard is a perfect metaphor for 21st-century Turkey, being an exciting mix of modernity and tradition. Contemporary boutiques and cutting-edge cultural cen
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Cathedral
Anis cathedral, renamed the Fethiye Camii (Victory Mosque) by the Seljuk conquerors, is the largest and most impressive building. Ani was once the seat of the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate; the three doorways served as separate entrances for the patriarch, the king and the people.
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Anemurium Ancient City
Anemuriums sprawling and eerily quiet ruins stretch for 500m down to the pebble beach with mammoth city walls scaling the mountainside above. From Anemurium car park beside the huge necropolis area, walk southeast past a 4th-century basilica ; look behind it for a pathway of mosaic
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Museum of Innocence
The painstaking attention to detail in this fascinating museum/piece of conceptual art will certainly provide every amateur psychologist with a theory or two about its creator, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. Vitrines display a quirky collection of objects that evoke the
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City Walls & Gates
Diyarbakırs single most conspicuous feature is its great circuit of basalt walls, probably dating from Roman times, although the present walls, around 6km in total length, date from early Byzantine times (AD 330–500). Be prudent when walking on and along the walls as there have bee
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Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts
This Ottoman palace on the western edge of the Hippodrome was built in 1524 for İbrahim Paşa, childhood friend, brother-in-law and grand vizier of Süleyman the Magnificent. Undergoing a major renovation at the time of research, it has a magnificent collection of artefacts, includin
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Hatay Archaeology Museum
This museum contains one of the worlds finest collections of Roman and Byzantine mosaics, covering a period from the 1st century AD to the 5th century. Many were recovered almost intact from Tarsus or Harbiye (Daphne in ancient times), 9km to the south.At the time of writing, the m
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Kariye Museum (Chora Church)
İstanbul has more than its fair share of Byzantine monuments, but few are as drop-dead gorgeous as this mosaic- and fresco-laden church. Nestled in the shadow of Theodosius IIs monumental land walls and now a museum overseen by the Aya Sofya curators, it receives a fraction of the
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İstanbul Archaeology Museums
This superb museum showcases archaeological and artistic treasures from the Topkapı collections. Housed in three buildings, its exhibits include ancient artefacts, classical statuary and an exhibition tracing İstanbuls history. There are many highlights, but the sarcophagi from the
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