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Türkiye

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Türkiye is 783,562 km² across 81 provinces, most of it Anatolia in West Asia with East Thrace on the European side of the straits. It has three coasts to choose between — the Black Sea to the north, the Aegean to the west, the Mediterranean to the south — and an interior plateau that behaves like a different country in winter. Istanbul is the largest city and the economic centre, Ankara the capital and the second-largest, and the December 2025 population of 86,092,168 is weighted heavily to the west. A first trip is usually Istanbul and one coast; the plateau is the second trip.

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

Cities

Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.

Practical information
Language spoken
Turkish
The official language of the Republic of Turkiye
Dialling code
+90
The international dialling code for Turkiye
Currency
Turkish lira (₺, TRY)
The official currency; one lira is divided into 100 kurus
Emergency number
112
One number for ambulance, fire and police
Plug type
European two-pin · 220 V
The national living guide records 220 V and European-style two-pin plugs
Tap water
Not recorded
No verified national source in the dataset

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Top things to see

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Historic monuments 438 Museums 96 Places of worship 57 Nature sites 86 Viewpoints 27 Food and drink 4 Markets and shopping 5 Entertainment 4 Nightlife 1 Family attractions 5 Art and culture 10 Activities 5

Typical visit duration

Up to 1 hour 421 1 to 2 hours 11 Half a day or more 6

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  1. Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia
    01 1 hr 30 min

    Hagia Sophia

    Ayasofya

    Hagia Sophia is the building that changed what a roof could do.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  2. Sultan Ahmed Mosque Sultan Ahmed Mosque
    02 45 min

    Sultan Ahmed Mosque

    Sultanahmet Camii

    The Blue Mosque was built for Ahmed I between 1609 and 1617, and it is the only imperial mosque in Istanbul that faces Hagia Sophia across open ground rather than standing apart from it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  3. Temple of Ephesian Artemis Temple of Ephesian Artemis
    03 45 min

    Temple of Ephesian Artemis

    Artemis Tapinagi

    The Temple of Ephesian Artemis is the Artemision sanctuary associated with ancient Ephesus, in Selçuk, İzmir Province.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  4. Galata Tower Galata Tower
    04 45 min

    Galata Tower

    Galata Kulesi

    The Galata Tower is the Genoese watchtower on the hill across the Golden Horn, built in 1348 as the Christea Turris — the Tower of Christ — at the highest point of their walled colony.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  5. Sardis Sardis
    05 2 hr 30 min

    Sardis

    Sardis is the excavated capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, on the outskirts of the modern village of Sart in the Salihli district of Manisa province, roughly 72 km from İzmir along the Ankara-İzmir corridor.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Manisa
  6. Ephesus Ephesus
    06 45 min

    Ephesus

    Efes

    Ephesus is an extensive ancient city in western Türkiye, visited today as an archaeological site near Selçuk in İzmir Province. The city visible today was founded by Lysimachus, one of Alexander the Great’s generals, around 300 BC.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  7. Hippodrome of Constantinople Hippodrome of Constantinople
    07 30 min

    Hippodrome of Constantinople

    Sultanahmet Meydanı

    The Hippodrome was where Constantinople did its politics.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  8. Grand Bazaar Grand Bazaar
    08 1 hr 30 min

    Grand Bazaar

    Kapalı Çarşı

    The Grand Bazaar is a covered city of shops that Mehmed II began building in the winter of 1455/56, within three years of taking Constantinople.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  9. Basilica Cistern Basilica Cistern
    09 45 min

    Basilica Cistern

    Yerebatan Sarnıcı

    The Basilica Cistern is a sixth-century water store the size of a cathedral, under a street in Sultanahmet, built for Justinian I. Historical texts say 7,000 enslaved people built it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  10. Taksim Square Taksim Square
    10 25 min

    Taksim Square

    Taksim Meydanı

    Taksim Square is where modern Istanbul argues with itself. It is the head of İstiklal Avenue, the terminus of the metro, the hub of the municipal buses, and the place the country's politics spills into when it spills anywhere.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  11. Maiden's Tower Maiden's Tower
    11 1 hour

    Maiden's Tower

    Kız Kulesi

    The Maiden's Tower stands on an islet in the Bosphorus, 200 m off the Üsküdar shore, and it is the one Istanbul landmark you cannot walk to.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  12. Chora Church Chora Church
    12 1 hour

    Chora Church

    Kariye Camii

    The Chora holds the best late Byzantine mosaic and fresco cycle anywhere, and it is a long way from the tram, which is why the people who go are the people who came for it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  13. Pergamon Pergamon
    13 45 min

    Pergamon

    Pergamon is the ancient hilltop site above Bergama in İzmir province, centred on the Acropolis and its monumental archaeological remains.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  14. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
    14 45 min

    Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

    Halikarnas Mozolesi

    The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is an archaeological museum in Bodrum, Muğla, presenting surviving remains of one of the ancient world’s most celebrated monumental tombs.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  15. Walls of Constantinople Walls of Constantinople
    15 1 hour

    Walls of Constantinople

    İstanbul Surları

    The Theodosian walls kept Constantinople for a thousand years, and they are still standing across the city. They were built under Theodosius II, who reigned from 402 to 450.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  16. Obelisk of Theodosius Obelisk of Theodosius
    16 15 min

    Obelisk of Theodosius

    Theodosius Dikilitaşı

    Older than almost everything around it by two thousand years, the Obelisk of Theodosius is a piece of pharaonic Egypt standing in the middle of a Turkish square.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  17. Yıldız Palace Yıldız Palace
    17 1 hr 30 min

    Yıldız Palace

    Yıldız Sarayı

    Yıldız is the palace a frightened sultan built uphill.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  18. Aqueduct of Valens Aqueduct of Valens
    18 20 min

    Aqueduct of Valens

    Bozdoğan Su Kemeri

    Bozdoğan Kemeri, the Aqueduct of Valens, is the surviving bridge of the water system that made a city of a million people possible on a peninsula with almost no rivers.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  19. Xanthos Xanthos
    19 1 hr 30 min

    Xanthos

    Xanthos was the capital of ancient Lycia, and what survives of it stands on two hills above the plain of the Eşen Çayı, the river the Greeks called the Xanthos, in the village of Kınık in Antalya province.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  20. Column of Constantine Column of Constantine
    20 10 min

    Column of Constantine

    Çemberlitaş Sütunu

    A single shaft of Egyptian porphyry stands in the middle of Çemberlitaş Square on Divan Yolu, banded with iron and blackened along one side.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  21. Fatih Istanbul Mosque Fatih Istanbul Mosque
    21 30 min

    Fatih Istanbul Mosque

    Fatih Camii

    The Fatih Mosque is where Mehmed the Conqueror is buried, and it stands on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles — the mausoleum of the Roman emperors, Constantine the Great among them.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  22. Anadoluhisarı Anadoluhisarı
    22 1 hour

    Anadoluhisarı

    Anadolu Hisarı

    Anadoluhisarı is a siege engine in stone, built sixty years before the siege it was meant for.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  23. Cappadocia Cappadocia
    23 45 min

    Cappadocia

    Kapadokya

    Cappadocia is a volcanic landscape in central Anatolia, shaped by erosion into valleys, ridges and fairy chimneys. It is a regional setting rather than one enclosed attraction, with open-air valleys, ridgelines and viewpoints spread around Göreme, Uçhisar, Ürgüp and Avanos.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Nevşehir
  24. Şehzade Mosque Şehzade Mosque
    24 30 min

    Şehzade Mosque

    Şehzadebaşı Camii

    The Şehzade is the mosque Süleyman the Magnificent built for a dead son, and it is where Sinan learned to build the ones that followed.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  25. Derinkuyu underground city Derinkuyu underground city
    25 45 min

    Derinkuyu underground city

    Derinkuyu Yeraltı Şehri

    Derinkuyu underground city is a subterranean settlement beneath Derinkuyu in Nevşehir Province, descending to approximately 85 metres below ground.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Nevşehir
  26. Yedikule Fortress Yedikule Fortress
    26 1 hr 15 min

    Yedikule Fortress

    Yedikule Zindanları

    Yedikule is a fortress built out of an older monument.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  27. Letoon Letoon
    27 45 min

    Letoon

    Letoon is a Lycian sacred centre near Kumluova in Seydikemer, Muğla. It served as the federal sanctuary of the Lycian League and as the cult centre of Xanthos, the nearby Lycian capital.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  28. Aspendos Aspendos
    28 1 hr 30 min

    Aspendos

    Aspendos is a ruined Pamphylian and Roman city standing on two low hills above the Eurymedon, the river now called the Köprüçay, in Belkıs Mahallesi in the Serik district of Antalya province.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  29. Çırağan Palace Çırağan Palace
    29 20 min

    Çırağan Palace

    Çırağan Sarayı

    Çırağan Palace is the last of the great Ottoman waterfront palaces, and the only one a visitor cannot walk into.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  30. Gordion Gordion
    30 45 min

    Gordion

    Gordion is an archaeological site and museum complex in Yassıhöyük, within Ankara Province’s Polatlı district. It preserves the setting of the Phrygian capital and combines indoor displays with monumental burial mounds and the Inner Castle Mound.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Ankara
  31. Thyatira Thyatira
    31 35 min

    Thyatira

    Tepemezarı

    Thyatira is the ancient city underneath part of modern Akhisar, in Manisa province, and one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Manisa
  32. Walled Obelisk Walled Obelisk
    32 10 min

    Walled Obelisk

    Örme Dikilitaş

    The Walled Obelisk, Örme Dikilitaş in Turkish and literally the masonry obelisk, stands 32 m tall on the spine of the old Hippodrome in what is now Sultanahmet Square, west of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  33. Rüstem Pasha Mosque Rüstem Pasha Mosque
    33 20 min

    Rüstem Pasha Mosque

    Rüstem Paşa Camii

    Rüstem Pasha Mosque does not sit on the street.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  34. Serpent Column Serpent Column
    34 10 min

    Serpent Column

    Yılanlı Sütun

    A battle trophy from 479 BC, standing in a hole in a square in Istanbul.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  35. The Stone of Million The Stone of Million
    35 10 min

    The Stone of Million

    Milyon Taşı

    What survives is a single weathered pillar fragment standing in a sunken plot beside the street, and it is the remnant of the Milion — the point from which the Eastern Roman Empire measured itself.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  36. Zeyrek Mosque Zeyrek Mosque
    36 30 min

    Zeyrek Mosque

    Zeyrek Molla Camii

    Zeyrek Camii was the Monastery of Christ Pantokrator, and after Hagia Sophia it is the largest Byzantine religious building still standing in Istanbul.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  37. Nuruosmaniye Mosque Nuruosmaniye Mosque
    37 20 min

    Nuruosmaniye Mosque

    Nuruosmaniye Camisi

    The Nuruosmaniye is where Ottoman architecture stopped being Ottoman in the classical sense. Begun in 1748 under Mahmud I and finished in 1755 under his brother Osman III, it is the first monumental Ottoman baroque building.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  38. Perge Perge
    38 45 min

    Perge

    Perga

    Perge is an ancient Greco-Roman city near Antalya, known locally as Perga. It was a significant settlement in Pamphylia and later an important city under Roman rule.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  39. Republic Monument Republic Monument
    39 10 min

    Republic Monument

    Cumhuriyet Anıtı

    The Republic Monument stands in the middle of Taksim Square and is the founding statement of the Turkish Republic rendered in bronze and marble.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  40. Bodrum Castle Bodrum Castle
    40 45 min

    Bodrum Castle

    Bodrum Kalesi

    Bodrum Castle is a medieval fortress on a rocky peninsula between Bodrum’s two harbours, in the centre of town. The Knights of St John built it between 1406 and 1522, and the complex now houses the Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  41. Yavuz Selim Mosque Yavuz Selim Mosque
    41 35 min

    Yavuz Selim Mosque

    Yavuz Sultan Selim Cami

    Yavuz Selim Mosque crowns the top of the fifth hill of the historic peninsula, above the Golden Horn, and it is a memorial as much as it is a mosque.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  42. Column of the Goths Column of the Goths
    42 10 min

    Column of the Goths

    Gotlar Sütunu

    Near the Sarayburnu end of Gülhane Park, well away from the gate most visitors use, a single fluted shaft with a Corinthian capital stands among the trees carrying a Latin inscription: FORTVNAE REDVCI OB DEVICTOS GOTHOS — to Fortuna, who…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  43. Column of Marcian Column of Marcian
    43 10 min

    Column of Marcian

    Kıztaşı

    A single granite column stands in a small railed square off Kıztaşı Caddesi in Fatih, and almost everybody who has heard of Istanbul has never heard of it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  44. Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque
    44 30 min

    Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque

    Kılıç Ali Paşa Camii

    The man who paid for this mosque was born Giovanni Dionigi Galeni in Le Castella, in Calabria, around 1519.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  45. Çamlıca Tower Çamlıca Tower
    45 1 hr 30 min

    Çamlıca Tower

    Çamlıca Televizyon Kulesi

    Çamlıca Tower stands on Büyük Çamlıca Hill on the Asian side, the highest point overlooking the Bosphorus, and opened on 29 May 2021.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  46. Monument of Liberty Monument of Liberty
    46 15 min

    Monument of Liberty

    Abide-i Hürriyet

    The Monument of Liberty is an Ottoman-era memorial in Şişli commemorating the officers and soldiers who died putting down the countercoup of 31 March 1909 against the Young Turk constitutional government, an episode known in Turkish as the 31 Mart…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  47. Çiçek Pasajı Çiçek Pasajı
    47 20 min

    Çiçek Pasajı

    Çiçek Pasajı is a covered arcade off İstiklal Caddesi in Beyoğlu, built in 1876 to the design of the architect Kleanthis Zannos and opened as the Cité de Péra.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  48. Kaunos Kaunos
    48 45 min

    Kaunos

    Kaunos is an archaeological site in Çandır Mahallesi, within Köyceğiz in Muğla Province, reached from Dalyan by boat across the river channels. It preserves an ancient port city whose maritime character changed when alluvial deposits filled the coast.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  49. Patara Patara
    49 2 hr 30 min

    Patara

    Patara is the excavated remains of the harbour city that served as the capital of the Lycian League, spread across a sandy plain behind the beach at Gelemiş, in the Kaş district of Antalya province.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  50. Column of Arcadius Column of Arcadius
    50 15 min

    Column of Arcadius

    Arkadyos Sütunu

    The Column of Arcadius is one of Constantinople's lost monuments, and what is left of it is the reason to come: a stump of imperial propaganda wedged between apartment blocks in Fatih.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  51. Library of Celsus Library of Celsus
    51 45 min

    Library of Celsus

    Celsus Kütüphanesi

    The Library of Celsus is a defining monument of Ephesus, near modern Selçuk in İzmir Province.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  52. Yeni Üsküdar Mosque Yeni Üsküdar Mosque
    52 25 min

    Yeni Üsküdar Mosque

    Yeni Valide Camii

    Step off the ferry at Üsküdar and this is the complex immediately in front of you, hard against the square rather than set back from it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  53. Yoros Castle Yoros Castle
    53 45 min

    Yoros Castle

    Yoros Kalesi

    Yoros Castle stands on the headland where the Bosphorus opens into the Black Sea, which is the whole explanation for it.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  54. Atatürk Cultural Center Atatürk Cultural Center
    54 45 min

    Atatürk Cultural Center

    Atatürk Kültür Merkezi

    The Ataturk Cultural Center closes the eastern side of Taksim Square, and it is the second building of that name to do so.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  55. Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hamamı Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hamamı
    55 1 hr 30 min

    Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hamamı

    Haseki Hürrem Hamamı

    The Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hamam is a twin bathhouse commissioned by Hürrem Sultan, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent, and designed by the imperial architect Mimar Sinan, built starting in 1556 between the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  56. Termessus Termessus
    56 3 hours

    Termessus

    Termessos

    Termessos is a Pisidian city on a natural platform about a thousand metres up the south-western flank of Güllük Dağı, the ancient Mount Solymos, in the Taurus range north-west of Antalya.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  57. Aigai Aigai
    57 2 hr 30 min

    Aigai

    Aigai is an ancient Greek city on top of Mount Gün, in the Yunt range north of Manisa, near the village of Yuntdağı Köseler. It is the most substantial classical site in Manisa province and almost nobody goes.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Manisa
  58. Kayaköy Kayaköy
    58 45 min

    Kayaköy

    Kayaköy Harabeleri

    Kayaköy is an abandoned settlement on a steep hillside about 8 km south of Fethiye in Muğla Province. Roofless stone houses and communal buildings preserve the outline of a former town rather than a single monument.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  59. Bulgarian Exarchate Bulgarian Exarchate
    59 15 min

    Bulgarian Exarchate

    Eksarhhane

    Eksarhhane is a historic building in the Fener district that housed the seat of the Bulgarian Exarchate, the autocephalous Bulgarian Orthodox church established in 1870 and centred in Istanbul until the Ottoman Empire's Bulgarian population and administration shifted after the…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  60. German Fountain German Fountain
    60 10 min

    German Fountain

    Alman Çeşmesi

    The German Fountain is an octagonal, neo-Byzantine gazebo fountain standing in Sultanahmet Square, a gift from German Emperor Wilhelm II to Sultan Abdul Hamid II to mark the Kaiser's 1898 state visit to Istanbul.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  61. Fountain of Ahmed III Fountain of Ahmed III
    61 10 min

    Fountain of Ahmed III

    III. Ahmet Çeşmesi

    The Fountain of Ahmed III stands just outside the Imperial Gate of Topkapı Palace, built in 1728 by Sultan Ahmed III during the Tulip Period, the era of Ottoman architecture known for its ornate, floral Baroque-influenced style.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  62. Milas Milas
    62 45 min

    Milas

    Milas is the modern town built around ancient Mylasa, a principal Carian centre with at least 5,000 years of history.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  63. Bin Tepe Bin Tepe
    63 1 hr 30 min

    Bin Tepe

    Bin Tepe is the royal burial ground of ancient Lydia, a field of more than a hundred earthen tumuli spread across a low limestone ridge on the southern shore of Marmara Gölü, several kilometres north of Sardis across the Gediz…

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Manisa
  64. Church of St. Polyeuctus Church of St. Polyeuctus
    64 20 min

    Church of St. Polyeuctus

    Ayios Polieuktos Kilisesi

    For a few years in the sixth century this was the largest church in Constantinople, and it was built by a woman making a point.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  65. Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque
    65 20 min

    Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque

    Hz. Cabir Cami

    A working neighbourhood mosque in Ayvansaray that began as a Byzantine church, and nobody is entirely sure which one.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  66. Olympos Olympos
    66 3 hours

    Olympos

    Olympos is a ruined Lycian and Roman city lying along both banks of the Ulupinar stream where the valley meets the sea, in the Yazir neighbourhood of Kumluca district, Antalya.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  67. Battle of Chesma
    67 45 min

    Battle of Chesma

    Çeşme Deniz Savaşı

    Battle of Chesma is a historical display within İzmir Çeşme Museum, set inside Çeşme Castle and specifically located on the lower floor of Umur Bey Tower.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  68. Knidos Knidos
    68 45 min

    Knidos

    Knidos is an archaeological site at Tekir Burnu in Yazı Mahallesi, on the far western end of the Datça Peninsula.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  69. Prison of Anemas Prison of Anemas
    69 20 min

    Prison of Anemas

    The Prison of Anemas is a historic Byzantine structure located within the walls of Istanbul, Turkey. It forms part of the larger Blachernae Palace complex in the northwestern section of the city.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  70. Aviation Martyrs' Monument Aviation Martyrs' Monument
    70 10 min

    Aviation Martyrs' Monument

    Hava Şehitleri Anıtı

    The Aviation Martyrs' Monument, known locally as Hava Şehitleri Anıtı, stands as a memorial dedicated to aviators who lost their lives in service.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  71. Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque
    71 20 min

    Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque

    Gazi Atik Ali Paşa Camii

    Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque is an Ottoman mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Its local name is Gazi Atik Ali Paşa Camii. The structure represents historical Islamic architecture within the urban fabric of the city.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  72. Library of Pergamum Library of Pergamum
    72 45 min

    Library of Pergamum

    Pergamon Kütüphanesi

    The Library of Pergamum is a specific ruin in the upper city of the Bergama Acropolis, beside the Sanctuary of Athena in Bergama, İzmir.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  73. Yıldız Clock Tower Yıldız Clock Tower
    73 10 min

    Yıldız Clock Tower

    Yıldız Clock Tower is a historic clock tower situated in the Yıldız district of Istanbul, Turkey. The structure stands as an architectural landmark within the broader Yıldız Palace complex area, reflecting Ottoman-era design influences.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  74. Stratonicea Stratonicea
    74 45 min

    Stratonicea

    Stratonikeia

    Stratonicea is an open-air archaeological site in Eskihisar Mahallesi, within Muğla’s Yatağan district. It stands beside the Yatağan–Milas road, approximately 7 kilometres west of Yatağan.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  75. Colophon Colophon
    75 45 min

    Colophon

    Kolophon

    Colophon is an archaeological settlement landscape in Menderes, İzmir, between present-day Değirmendere and Çamönü. It was one of the oldest and most important cities of Ionia, but it is not a compact museum or a single monumental ruin.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  76. Büyükada Greek Orthodox Orphanage Büyükada Greek Orthodox Orphanage
    76 45 min

    Büyükada Greek Orthodox Orphanage

    Büyükada Eski Rum Yetimhanesi

    The Büyükada Greek Orthodox Orphanage, known locally as Büyükada Eski Rum Yetimhanesi, stands on Büyükada, the largest of Istanbul's Princes' Islands. This timber structure ranks among the world's largest wooden buildings.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  77. Klazomenai Klazomenai
    77 45 min

    Klazomenai

    Klazomenai is an archaeological site on the Urla coast and was one of the twelve Ionian cities.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  78. Teos Teos
    78 45 min

    Teos

    Teos is an ancient Ionian city in Sığacık, Seferihisar, on İzmir’s Aegean coast. Founded as an Ionian colony around 1000 BC, it developed as a maritime settlement connected to northern and southern harbours.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  79. Camondo stairs Camondo stairs
    79 15 min

    Camondo stairs

    Kamondo Merdivenleri

    The Camondo Stairs are a short public stairway in Galata built by a banker so that he could get to work.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Istanbul
  80. Phaselis Phaselis
    80 45 min

    Phaselis

    Faselis

    Phaselis is an ancient Lycian city on the Mediterranean coast near Antalya. Founded by settlers from Rhodes around 690 BCE, it became a significant port with three harbours.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  81. Hadrian's Gate Hadrian's Gate
    81 45 min

    Hadrian's Gate

    Hadrian Kapısı

    Hadrian's Gate is a triumphal arch in Antalya's Kaleiçi district, built to commemorate the visit of Roman Emperor Hadrian to the city in 130 CE.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  82. Ankara Castle Ankara Castle
    82 45 min

    Ankara Castle

    Ankara Kalesi

    Ankara Castle is a publicly accessible historic hilltop area in Kale neighbourhood, Altındağ district, rather than a ticketed museum with a single controlled entrance.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Ankara
  83. Cyme Cyme
    83 45 min

    Cyme

    Kyme

    Cyme, also called Kyme, is an archaeological site near Çakmaklı in Aliağa, İzmir, around Nemrut Bay. It was one of the Aiolian cities founded around the middle of the eleventh century BC and developed as an important port centre.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  84. Temple of Augustus in Ankara Temple of Augustus in Ankara
    84 45 min

    Temple of Augustus in Ankara

    Augustus Tapınağı

    The Temple of Augustus in Ankara is a Roman monument beside Hacı Bayram Mosque in the Hacı Bayram quarter of Altındağ. Its surviving walls preserve the Res Gestae Divi Augusti, a Latin and Ancient Greek account of Emperor Augustus’s achievements.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Ankara
  85. Pinara Pinara
    85 45 min

    Pinara

    Pinara is a Lycian archaeological site near Minare village in Muğla’s Fethiye area, about 40 km from Fethiye. Its name is associated with the Lycian word for “round”, referring to the rounded rocky hill that defines the setting.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Muğla
  86. İzmir Clock Tower İzmir Clock Tower
    86 45 min

    İzmir Clock Tower

    İzmir Saat Kulesi

    İzmir Clock Tower is a historic public monument in Konak Square, in İzmir’s Konak district. Built in 1901 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sultan II Abdülhamid’s accession, it has become one of the city’s most recognisable symbols.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  87. Basilica of St. John Basilica of St. John
    87 45 min

    Basilica of St. John

    Aziz Yuhanna Bazilikası

    Basilica of St. John is a hilltop archaeological complex on Ayasuluk Hill in Selçuk, İzmir, at İsa Bey Mahallesi, St. Jean Sokak No: 4. Its identity comes from the monumental church built over the site associated with St.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  88. Claros Claros
    88 45 min

    Claros

    Klaros

    Claros is a sanctuary of Apollo at Ahmetbeyli in Menderes, İzmir, remembered for prophecy rather than for the remains of a complete ancient town.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  89. Church of Mary Church of Mary
    89 45 min

    Church of Mary

    Meryem Kilisesi

    Church of Mary is an early-fifth-century Christian basilica within the Ephesus Archaeological Site near Selçuk in İzmir.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  90. Lebedus Lebedus
    90 45 min

    Lebedus

    Lebedos

    Lebedus is a small open-air archaeological landscape on the Kısık Peninsula beside Ürkmez, between Gümüldür and Ürkmez on İzmir’s coast.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  91. Asansör Asansör
    91 45 min

    Asansör

    Asansör is a historic vertical connection in İzmir’s Karataş neighbourhood. It links Mithatpaşa Caddesi with Şehit Nihatbey Caddesi, allowing people to cross the steep change in level without taking the long stair route.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  92. Roman Baths of Ankara Roman Baths of Ankara
    92 45 min

    Roman Baths of Ankara

    Roma Hamamı

    The Roman Baths of Ankara are an open-air archaeological museum in Ulus, on Çankırı Caddesi in the Anafartalar area of Altındağ.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Ankara
  93. Atatürk Mask Atatürk Mask
    93 45 min

    Atatürk Mask

    Atatürk Maskı

    Atatürk Mask is a monumental outdoor portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk built directly into the Yeşildere hillside in İzmir’s Çaldıran area, between Buca and Konak.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  94. Atarneus Atarneus
    94 45 min

    Atarneus

    Atarneus is an ancient settlement at Ağılkale, on a hill near Dikili in İzmir. Local heritage information dates its history to approximately 4000 BCE.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  95. Yanartaş Yanartaş
    95 45 min

    Yanartaş

    Yanartaş is a natural geological attraction in Antalya province, known for flames emerging from the rocky ground.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  96. Kadifekale Kadifekale
    96 45 min

    Kadifekale

    Kadifekale, also called Velvet Castle, is an open-air archaeological site on Pagos, the 186-metre-high hill south of İzmir’s city centre.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • İzmir
  97. Limyra Limyra
    97 45 min

    Limyra

    Limyra is an ancient Lycian city in the Finike district of Antalya Province. Its open-air ruins introduce visitors to a settlement shaped by several periods of Anatolian history.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  98. Sillyon Sillyon
    98 45 min

    Sillyon

    Sillyon is an ancient fortified settlement perched on a steep hilltop in the Pamphylian plain near Antalya. The site commands dramatic views across the coastal landscape and preserves substantial remains from multiple civilizations.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
  99. Sultan Mosque Sultan Mosque
    99 30 min

    Sultan Mosque

    Sultan Camii

    The Sultan Mosque is the centrepiece of Manisa and the reason the city has a festival.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Manisa
  100. Hidirlik Tower Hidirlik Tower
    100 45 min

    Hidirlik Tower

    Hıdırlık Kulesi

    Hidirlik Tower is a compact cylindrical stone landmark on the southwestern edge of Kaleiçi, Antalya’s historic old town, beside the harbour.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
    • Antalya
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Common questions

How long should a first trip to Türkiye be?

Ten to fourteen days allows about four days in İstanbul and at least three around Antalya when coastal archaeology is included. Cappadocia needs its own regional stay, and a one-way coastal route is more workable than returning to the same city each night.

What entry documents are needed for Türkiye?

Türkiye's visa position varies by passport and purpose. Verify the rule through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, when eligible, use only the official e-Visa service rather than an intermediary.

What is the best way to travel around Türkiye?

İstanbul's two airports and Antalya are the principal gateways for this itinerary. Domestic flights cover long cross-country legs, coaches serve many city pairs, and high-speed rail is most useful on the İstanbul-Ankara axis rather than as a universal substitute.

When is a practical time to visit Türkiye?

April to May and September to October are broad choices for combining İstanbul with the Mediterranean coast. Cappadocia nights, inland heat, and Antalya's coastal conditions differ, so confirm weather for each overnight base.

What money and payment basics apply in Türkiye?

Türkiye uses the Turkish lira (TRY). Keep lira available for smaller transport and market transactions even when cards are accepted, and review the displayed amount in TRY before agreeing to any card conversion.

What practical safety details should I save for Türkiye?

Dial 112 for emergencies in Türkiye. Electricity is 230 V through Type C and F sockets; tap-water safety is not recorded here, so obtain current local advice at each stop.