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Köyceğiz
The Köyceğiz-Dalyan Nature Reserve has a growing reputation among outdoor types for its excellent hiking and cycling. The park is home to large swaths of Liquidambar (Liquidambar orientalis ) trees and to wetland areas rich in birdlife.
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Kurşunlu Cami
A bit west of Cumhuriyet Meydanı stands the Ottoman-style Kurşunlu Cami. Also called the Ahmet Paşa Camii after its founder, it was completed in 1585 possibly following plans drawn up by the great Sinan (who was born in a nearby village).
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Selime Monastery
The monastery at Selime is an astonishing rock-cut structure incorporating a vast kitchen with a soaring chimney, a church with a gallery around it, stables with rock-carved feed troughs and other evidence of the troglodyte lifestyle.
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Varius Baths
Baths were situated at the main entrances to ancient cities so that visitors could wash before entering, and these stand at the entrance to Upper Ephesus. Greco-Roman baths also served a social function as a meeting and massage destination.
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Mersin Museum
Mersins archaeology museum has finds from nearby tumuli (burial mounds) and sites (including Elaiussa-Sebaste near Kızkalesi), a great bronze of Dionysus and curious odds and ends like a Roman-era glass theatre token on the ground floor.
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Mudanya Mütareke Evi Müzesi
This whitewashed 19th-century house, where the Armistice of Moudania was signed by Italy, France, Britain and Turkey on 11 October 1922 (Greece reluctantly signed three days later), houses a museum of historic Armistice-related photos.
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Arkas Art Centre
At the southern end of the Kordon is this new art centre is housed in the former French consulate. As worthwhile as the rotating exhibits here are, the centre demands a visit just to see the interior of the sumptuous building built in 1906.
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Ordu Boztepe Cable Car
Take a seven-minute teleferik (cable car) ride from the seafront a short distance from the Mıdı restaurant up Boztepe (498m) for breathtaking views and fresh air. If the restaurant and cafe dont tempt you, theres a park with a picnic area here as well.
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Çavuşin Church
Just off the highway on the northern edge of Çavuşin youll find this church, accessed via a steep and rickety iron stairway. Cappadocias first post-iconoclastic church, it served as a pigeon house for many years and is home to some fine frescoes.
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Alanya Aqua Park
Kids had enough of castles and ruins? This large water park, near Alanya centre, has plenty of wet and wild fun with pools and slides appropriate for both older children and little ones. Theres a nice area with sunloungers for wiped out parents, too.
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Yılanlı Kilise
The Yılanlı Kilise sits in the furthest corner of the Yukarı Valley, its frescoes deliberately painted over with black paint, probably to protect them. The hole in the roof of one chamber, surrounded by blackened rock, shows that fires were lit there.
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Kent Müzesi
The lives of Çanakkales residents since Ottoman times are the focus of this small museum, which has drawn on oral histories for the content of many of its display panels. There are also photographs, newspaper articles and a few artefacts on show.
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Medical History Museum
This excellent museum near the Sultan Camii traces the history of medicine under the Ottomans in seven rooms. Dont miss the mock-ups of operations, the pharmacy and the exhibit on the history and making of Manisas most famous product, Mesir paste.
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Pervane Medresesi
The powerful Seljuk grand vizier Süleyman Pervane built this seminary in 1262 to commemorate the conquest of Sinop a half-century earlier. It now houses a cafe and shops selling local crafts, including lovely embroidered linen, a Sinop specialty.
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İstanbul Museum of the History of Science & Technology in Islam
Of interest to science buffs, the didactic exhibition in this museum argues that Islamic advances in science and technology preceded and greatly influenced those in Europe. Most of the exhibits are reconstructions of historical instruments and tools.
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Arch of Domitian
The ruins of the Arch of Domitian, with its twin towers, are at the northern end, but just before them dont miss the surprisingly large latrine building, with two channels cut into its floor, one to carry away sewage, the other for fresh water.
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Taş Han
Head along Atatürk Caddesi and youll see the partly ruined Taş Han (1758), an Ottoman caravanserai.
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Emine Göğüş Culinary Museum
This interesting museum provides both information and inspiration for exploring Gazianteps terrific eateries. English-language translations are key ingredients in the museums successful recipe of explaining what dishes to try in local restaurants.
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Crusader Fortress
On the hillside above (and south of) Fethiye and along the road to Kayaköy, you cant miss the ruined tower of a Crusader fortress, built by the Knights of St John at the start of the 15th century on earlier (perhaps Lycian, Greek and Roman) foundations.
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Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum
The poet Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı (1910–56) was born in this two-storey black basalt house built in 1820 in a side street about 50m north of the Ulu Cami. It now houses the Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum exhibiting the poets personal effects and furnishings.
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