The ruined medieval Armenian capital on the closed border with Armenia, once a city of 100,000 people, with the remains of churches, a cathedral and walls on a windswept plateau, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It's 45 km from Kars. The Eastern Express train from Ankara to Kars is a famous scenic journey.
A Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a cliff face 1,200 m up in a forested valley near Trabzon, founded in the 4th century, with frescoes in the ro…
A mountain top at 2,134 m where King Antiochus of Commagene built a tomb mound in the 1st century BC, with huge stone heads of gods and kings now sca…
The world's oldest known monumental temple, built around 9600 BC by hunter-gatherers, thousands of years before Stonehenge, with huge T-shaped stone …
A landscape of rock pinnacles ('fairy chimneys'), valleys and cave dwellings in central Turkey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
An underground city carved into the soft rock up to 85 m deep, with stables, wineries, chapels and ventilation shafts, which could shelter thousands …
A town of well-preserved Ottoman timber-framed houses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, once a stop on the caravan route.
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