Odunpazarı
Odunpazarı, Eskişehir’s Ottoman quarter: painted timber houses, Kengo Kuma’s Modern Museum, the Kurşunlu complex, meerschaum and…
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Historical Places
Ninety-two historical places across Turkey, the broadest category in this guide. It covers everything built and left behind: ruins, mosques, churches, castles, bridges, caravanserais and burial sites. If you know roughly where you are going but not what is nearby worth seeing, start here.
This category lists 92 places in Türkiye on istambul.com, including Yilan Castle, Yeni Kale, The Tomb Of Ahmedi Hani, Tas Kopru, Synnada Ancient City, Sultanhani Caravanserai, Sandıklı Castle and Perre Ancient City.
Ordu
Ordu travel guide: Boztepe cable car, Paşaoğlu Mansion, Cape Jason, Ünye Castle, Perşembe yayla, local food…
Osmaniye
Osmaniye travel guide: Karatepe-Aslantaş and its Hittite bilingual, Kastabala, Toprakkale and other castles, Zorkun plateau, peanuts…
Oylum Höyük
Oylum Höyük near Kilis: a huge settlement mound with a burnt Middle Bronze Age palace, 4,000-year-old…
Pamphylia
Pamphylia was an ancient region located on the southern coast of present-day Turkey. It was situated…
Paphlagonia
Paphlagonia, the ancient region of north-central Anatolia between Ankara and the Black Sea: its history, rock…
Paşaoğlu Mansion
Paşaoğlu Mansion in Ordu: an 1896 stone house built with Ünye stone and Romanian timber, now…
Patara
Patara is a small village in southwestern Turkey that's known for its long, sandy beach and…
Perga
Perge near Antalya, a leading city of ancient Pamphylia: the Hellenistic gate towers, a colonnaded street…
Pergamon (Pergamum)
Pergamon above Bergama, a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the steep theatre, the Trajaneum, the Asclepion and…
Perre Ancient City
Perre, also known as Perrhe, is an ancient city located in Adıyaman Province and southeastern Turkey.
Pertek Castle
Pertek Castle in Tunceli: the Mengücek-era fortress left on an island when the Keban Dam filled…
Phaselis
Phaselis is an ancient Lycian city in the province of Antalya in Turkey. It is located…
Philadelphia (Alasehir)
Philadelphia (Alaşehir) in Manisa, one of the Seven Churches of Revelation: the Byzantine Church of St…
Phrygia
Phrygia, the ancient kingdom of central Anatolia: Gordion and the tumulus linked to King Midas, the…
Pierre Loti Hill
Pierre Loti Hill above Eyüp: the cable car, the hilltop café named after the French writer,…
Pisidia
Pisidia is an ancient region located in modern-day Turkey, primarily in the southwestern part of the…
Pompeiopolis
Pompeiopolis at Taşköprü, Kastamonu: the Roman city founded by Pompey, with a mosaic villa, theatre, odeon…
Priene
Priene, the Ionian hillside city above the Maeander plain: the Temple of Athena, the theatre and…
Prusias ad Hypium
Prusias ad Hypium at Konuralp, Düzce: the Forty Steps theatre for 10,000 people, city walls, the…
Rákóczi Museum
Rákóczi Museum in Tekirdağ: the house where Francis II Rákóczi lived in exile from 1720 to…
Ravanda Castle
Ravanda Castle in Kilis: a fortress carved into a cone-shaped hill, taken by Crusaders in 1097…
Red Madrasa
The Red Madrasa in Cizre, Şırnak: the 15th-century college of the Azizan emirs with the tomb…
Rize
Rize travel guide: Ayder plateau, the Kaçkar Mountains, Fırtına Valley and Zilkale, Anzer honey and tea…
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