URGUP

Located in the historical region of Cappadocia is probably the busiest of the small towns in the vicinity of the [more]

TOPKAPI PALACE

The Topkapı Palace which covers an area of 70 hectars / 173 acres, is a palace in Istanbul which [more]

SIDE

Side is located on a peninsula penetrating into the Mediterranean. It was one of the important civilizations and has become [more]

OLYMPOS

One of the prettiest and the most remote sites in this part of Turkey, Olympos combines an Indiana Jones site [more]

NEVSEHIR

Nevsehir is a regional transport hub and provincial town for the surrounding area. It's close enough to the sites of [more]

MILETUS

When Neleus, son of King Kodros of Athens, decided to found a city, the gods told him that he must [more]

KUTAHYA

Kutahya is in western Anatolia and has been a thermal center for numerous civilizations for more than 5,000 years. Kutahya [more]

KALEICI

Antalya is the heart of Turkish tourism, and Kaleici is the heart of Antalya. Kaleici is the old town inside [more]

IZNIK

The city of Iznik is surrounded by Roman walls 4427 metres in length. Visitors from the north enter the city [more]

HAGIA SOPHIA

From the time it was built Haghia Sophia, the Church of Divine Wisdom, has astonished and entranced all who beheld [more]

GOYNUK

Göynük is a picturesque town in northwest Turkey, halfway between Istanbul and Ankara. The houses climb either side of a [more]

GOREME

Goreme has, to some extent, become the focus of the Cappadocian tourist industry. It's proximity to the Open Air Museum, [more]

GALATA TOWER

There are cities which are eternal, bewitching generation after generation with their beauty and splendour, their names turning up again [more]

ELMALI

Elmalı is a place in the west Antalya that visitors decide almost immediately would be an agreeable place to live, [more]

CAUNOS

Caunos lies on the west bank of the river and is therefore, technically at least, Carian - part of ancient [more]

CAPPADOCIA

The amazing underground cities of Cappadocia are worthy of a visit. Let's take Derinkuyu for example. The one time home [more]

BEYAZIT TOWER

It was built by architect Senekerim Kalfa of the Balyan family in 1828 under the reign of Mahmud II. The [more]

BELKIS

Turkey's southeast province of Gaziantep was until recently best known for its pistachio nuts and baklava. Close to the town [more]

AVANOS

Avanos is set on the banks of the Kizilirmak, the Red River, which gets its name from the clay that [more]

ASSOS

Assos, the ancient Aeolian city clinging to a rocky hillside above the charming and fairly sensitively developed fishing village of [more]

APHRODISIAS

The ancient city of Aphrodisias, once the capital of the province of Lydia, is located near the village of Geyre [more]

ANTAKYA

Antakya Mosaic Museum has the second largest collection of its kind in the world after the mosaic museum in Tunisia. [more]

ANITKABIR

Unlike many famous leaders, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk never requested a monumental tomb for himself. But the adoration and respect shown [more]

AKDAMAR

On a tiny island filled with almond trees and surrounded by cliffs where silver-winged gulls nest there once lived a [more]