Antalya Museum
One of Turkey's largest museums, with 5000 items illustrating the history of the Mediterranean and Pamphylia regions.
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Türkiye: 50 places in Atlas — Istanbul, Antalya. Expect top sights, food and markets, nature. Mark where you have been and plan your trip on your own map.
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Perge
Extensive ruins of a city which had its heyday 2nd to 3rd century AD under the Romans.
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Fluted Minaret Mosque
Elegant six-domed mosque built under Seljuk rule in 1230 and rebuilt in 1373 by the Hamidids.
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A hilltop of 618 m with great views over the city and coast, reached by gondola cable car though you can drive or even hike up.
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Woodland park, the waterfalls are impressive in flow but dry to a trickle in summer.
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Built by the Romans in the 2nd century AD with a square base and circular upper storey, this was a bastion and lighthouse.
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Antalya-style piyaz, kofte and other authentic fare.
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Sehzade Korkut Mosque
This was first built as a Roman temple in the 2nd century AD, and in later centuries went back and forth between religions.
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Long-established family-run restaurant, pleasant garden setting and great trad food.
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Friendly restaurant with a great selection of fresh fish.
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Huge aquarium with display tanks and long viewing tunnel.
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Sand sculpture park open year round, lit up at night.
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Atatürk stayed in Antalya in 1930, 1931 and 1935.
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An attractive pool in a canyon.
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Friendly place for çiğ köfte, raw meatballs.
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Authentically shabby place for Turkish trad food.
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Simple place with good food.
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Large spacious zoo park.
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Galata Tower
It was built by the Genoese in the 14th century on the city walls of Galata, marking the highest point of their territory.
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Vast underground cistern built by Justinian in 532 to store the city's water, the largest and best-known of the hundreds constructed.
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Hagia Sophia
The third and grandest of the churches on this site, completed in 537 AD.
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Dolmabahce Palace
This lavish palace with 285 rooms and 43 halls was the admin centre for the Ottoman Empire in its last 60 years.
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Sultanahmet Mosque
The defining image of Istanbul, dominating the skyline with its great dome and six minarets.
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Turkey was slow to protect its antiquities and to display them properly, but in 1867 Sultan Abdülaziz toured the museums of Paris, London and Vienna and saw what was needed.
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The imperial enclave of the Ottoman emperors for four centuries.
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Ortaköy
A neighbourhood on the bank of Bosphorus with the Ortaköy Mosque—the baroque mosque under the Bosphorus Bridge, combination of which are one of the most iconic images of Istanbul.
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On top of a hill overlooking the Golden Horn, this is a magnificent mosque built by Sinan in the 1550s.
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Maiden's Tower
One of the icons of the city is also called the Leander's Tower, on a Bosphorus islet off Salacak.
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Princes' Islands are nine islands in the Sea of Marmara, about 5 km off the Asian coast of Istanbul, and part of that metropolis.
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The building was erected as a Roman Catholic church in 1325 by the friars of the Dominican Order, near or above an earlier chapel dedicated to Saint Paul in 1233.
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Museum of Innocence
Opened in 2012, this museum is unique and a must-see when you are in the Beyoğlu area.
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Rumeli Fortress
Built in first half of the 15th century, this is the large medieval castle under the Second Bosphorus Bridge.
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Eyüp Mosque Complex
This is the main attraction around this part of the city.
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The Golden Gate was the ceremonial entrance through the Theodosian city walls.
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Cağaloğlu Hamamı
Built in 1741, the last major hamam opened in the Ottoman era.
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Military Museum
Among the exhibition of this museum are five thousand pieces from the Ottoman era through WWII, with the most prominent piece possibly being the huge chain that the Byzantines stretched across the mouth of the Golden Horn to keep out the Sultan's navy in 1453 during the siege of Constantinople.
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Named after a 16th-century village, founded by Serbs deported from Belgrade when it fell to the Ottomans.
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Bathhouse built in 1556 by Mimar Sinan, the chief Ottoman architect, at the request of Hürrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent.
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A ritual dancing hall of the mystical Mevlevi order, the followers of the teachings of Mewlānā Rumi.
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Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque
Sokollu Mehmet Pasha was the grand vizier and de facto ruler of the Ottoman Empire during its 16th century golden age.
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Camondo Stairs
An attractive stairway mixing the Neo-Baroque and early Art Nouveau styles, climbing up from Bankalar St towards the Galata Tower.
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Expensive and a bit of a way out, but its meat dishes draw consistently admiring reviews.
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The original mosque was built between 1463-1470 by the Greek architect Atik Sinan, by order of Sultan Mehmet II the Conqueror, on the site of the former Church of the Holy Apostles, which had served as Byzantine Imperial burial place for a thousand years.
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A village with an impressive citadel overlooking the Bosphorus and its mouth into the Black Sea.
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Rüstem Pasha Mosque
Built in 1564 by Mimar Sinan for Rüstem Pasha, Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent, this small mosque has an interior covered by beautiful Iznik pottery, then at its zenith.
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Upscale restaurant with an amazing view over the Bosporus.
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This was rediscovered in 2010 when an overlying building was demolished.
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One of the best Ottoman restaurants in the country.
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It was built in 2001 and is the first miniature park in Istanbul.
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Çengelköy
About 15 minutes walking north of Beylerbeyi lies the historical fishing village Çengelköy.
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