A town of well-preserved Ottoman timber-framed houses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, once a stop on the caravan route. Stay in a restored mansion, visit the Cinci Han caravanserai, and taste Turkish delight and saffron.
It's about 3 hours from Ankara.
The palace of the Ottoman sultans for nearly 400 years, on a point above the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn, with courtyards, pavilions tiled in Iznik…
Built as a cathedral by the Byzantine emperor Justinian in 537, later a mosque, then a museum, and again a mosque since 2020, with a vast dome that s…
A vast underground Byzantine water reservoir built in the 6th century, with 336 marble columns rising from the water, dimly lit, and two Medusa heads…
Built between 1609 and 1616, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is famous for its six minarets, its cascading domes and the more than 20,000 blue İznik tiles th…
The strait dividing Europe from Asia, lined with palaces, Ottoman wooden mansions (yalı) and fortresses.
One of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world, begun in 1461.
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