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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
Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.
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İmrahor Camii
İmrahor Camii is a small working neighbourhood mosque in Salacak, the shore quarter that runs south from Üsküdar square on Istanbul's Asian side.
Kırtık Mezarlığı
Kırtık Mezarlığı is the largest cemetery in Manisa, a Muslim civil burial ground of 333,000 m² in Şehzadeler, still in use. It is also known as Kırtık Asri Mezarlığı or the Manisa Municipality Asri Cemetery.
Ağıl Höyük
Ağıl Höyük (Mucur) is a named archaeological mound in Mucur district, near Küçükburunağıl and Kırlangıç Hill.
Ahi Ebubekir Türbesi
Ahi Abu Bakr Tomb is a small local shrine on Ahi Sokak in Akyol Mahallesi, Yatağan, Muğla. Local historical accounts connect Ahi Abu Bakr with the founding of the settlement once known as Ahiköy, alongside his brother Ahi Sinan.
Dağdeviren Höyüğü is a registered archaeological mound in the Kayalıoğlu area of Akhisar, Manisa Province. It is also known as Dağdeviren Çiftliği Höyüğü, while older references call it Akırbey Çiftliği.
Doğala Han is a Seljuk-period caravanserai ruin in Doğala village, Derinkuyu district, Nevşehir, with its surviving remains inside the village cemetery.
Dolayhan
Dolay Han is a ruined Seljuk caravanserai southeast of Til Village, in Derinkuyu district, approximately 30 kilometres southeast of Nevşehir.
El Nazar Kilisesi
El Nazar Church is a small Byzantine sanctuary carved into a fairy chimney in Zemi Valley, east of Göreme in Nevşehir.
Kalecik Kalesi
Kalecik Castle is a ruined historic site in the centre of Kalecik, Ankara, occupying a steep rocky rise above the town. Public descriptions connect the remains with the Roman or Byzantine period and later Ottoman repairs.
Ömer Dede Türbesi
Ömer Dede Tomb is a small, named religious heritage site in Eskicami Mahallesi, within Selendi İlçe Mezarlığı in Manisa. Its character comes from the place itself: a tomb set inside an active cemetery, rather than a museum or formal exhibition.
Mylasa
Pilav Hill, also known as Pilavtepe, is a modest natural rise near Milas with an unusually specific archaeological story.
Aziz Basil Şapeli
Aziz Basil Chapel is a compact rock-cut Byzantine chapel at the entrance to Göreme Open-Air Museum.
Yeni Han
Yeni Han is a two-storey trading inn in Şehzadeler, Manisa, organised around an internal courtyard. Its identity comes from this inward-facing arrangement: rooms and businesses meet the open centre, creating a compact architectural space within the city’s everyday commercial fabric.
Saruhan Bey Türbesi
The tomb of Saruhan Bey is the oldest dated monument in Manisa's historic quarter, built in 1345 by his grandson İshak Çelebi.
18 Mart Şehitleri Anıtı is a dedicated Çanakkale remembrance complex in Manisa’s Laleli Mahallesi, on Mimar Sinan Bulvarı beside the Manisa–İzmir road.
6 Eylül Şehitleri Anıtı is a town-centre memorial in Gölmarmara, Manisa Province, set near Merkez Park.
Abandoned cave houses are the remains of old Çavuşin, a former settlement cut into a soft volcanic-rock hillside above the newer village.
Mapped as “Abandoned Underground/Cave City,” this place is identified in the responsible public notice as Saray Underground City (Saray Yeraltı Şehri). It lies around Saray Mevkii near Çardak Village, in Nevşehir Merkez district.
Abdi Höyük is a low settlement mound in Abdi village, within Kozaklı district of Nevşehir Province, Türkiye.
Acısu Sıcak Su Kaynağı is a natural hot spring in Manisa province, on the Kula–Selendi road near the Gediz River and roughly 18 kilometres from Kula.
The Acropolis is the steep hilltop at the entrance to Tlos Archaeological Site in Yaka Mahallesi, Seydikemer, Muğla.
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The Acropolis of Erythrae, also written Erythrai, is the elevated part of the ancient settlement associated with modern Ildırı in Çeşme, İzmir.
Adrenalin Safari Park is a mapped equestrian attraction near Gökbel and Sarıgerme in Ortaca district of Muğla. Its character is defined by outdoor horse-based experiences rather than galleries, rides or a conventional amusement-park layout.
Ağalimanı is a natural cove on the Fethiye Gulf side of Kapıdağ Peninsula in Muğla Province. It is experienced as part of a sea journey, with the boat, sheltered water and coastal landscape forming the main attraction.
Ağıllı Höyük is a broad archaeological mound in the Ağıllı Höyük locality of Acıgöl district, Nevşehir Province, about 2 km west of Ağıllı Village.
Agora is a principal surviving civic space within Euromos Ancient City, near Milas in Muğla Province. Its approximately 95 by 83 metre plan is nearly square, giving the remains a strong sense of order.
The Agora is the civic square at the centre of ancient Euromos, in Selimiye near Milas, Muğla. Its almost square plan measures approximately 95 by 83 metres, giving the ruin a clearly defined footprint within the wider archaeological site.
Ahlatlı Tepecik is a höyük, or settlement mound, on Marmara Lake’s southern shore, about 800 metres west of Tekelioğlu Mahallesi in Manisa’s Salihli area. Its significance lies in the archaeological evidence preserved within a modest rise beside the lake.
Airbus A300 is a full-size 1985 aircraft installed as a roadside landmark in Kızılyaka Mahallesi, Ula district, beside the Muğla–Fethiye road. Brothers Cemal Işıldak and Nurettin Işıldak bought the aircraft for an alternative-tourism project and converted it for restaurant-cafeteria use.
Akhisar Kalesi is the separately mapped castle feature that gives a physical focus to Akhisar’s name in central Manisa.
Akhisar Sinagogu is a surviving Jewish-heritage fragment in Paşa Mahallesi, Akhisar, rather than a complete synagogue preserved as a conventional attraction. Historical material identifies it with Akhisar’s former Jewish community, while the visible survival is chiefly the historic doorway.
Akropol is the walled upper settlement within Pedasa, a Lelegian archaeological site in the wooded hills north of Bodrum.
Akropolis is the elevated fortified quarter within the Iasos archaeological site at Kıyıkışlacık in Milas, Muğla. Unlike a standalone monument, it is one identifiable part of a peninsula settlement surrounded by sea on three sides.
Aktüel Traverten Oluşumu is the Cambazlı travertine formation near the Urganlı geothermal area in Turgutlu district, Manisa. It is an outdoor geological landscape within the Turgutlu Neogene basin, at the western end of the Gediz Graben.
Akvaryum Koyu
Akvaryum Koyu is a natural cove on the Bozburun Peninsula, reached as a sea stop rather than a conventional beach complex. Its identity comes from the contrast between clear-looking water and an undeveloped coastal setting.
Akyapı is a large Roman-period building complex within Ören, a settlement in Muğla’s Milas district and the setting associated with ancient Keramos.
Alakilise is an Early Byzantine basilica in the Belören area, preserved as part of the wooded Lycian Way landscape. The responsible public body dates the church to the 5th–6th centuries.
Alazeytin Kalesi / Syangela is a Leleg settlement spread over a conical hill in Çiftlik Mahallesi, within Bodrum district of Muğla Province.
Ali Guven is a named outdoor monument in Bodrum’s Çarşı, commemorating a local sandal-maker rather than a military leader, ruler, or archaeological site.
Altıkapı Türbesi is a 13th-century Seljuk-era tomb in Kavaklıönü, within Ürgüp town centre in Nevşehir Province. Ürgüp Municipality identifies it as a monument known to belong to a mother and her two daughters.
Altınköy Açık Hava Müzesi is a reconstructed Anatolian village landscape in Beşikkaya, Altındağ, dedicated to rural life in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
This mapped feature is a short natural underwater tunnel in the Kabak coastal area near Faralya, within the wider Fethiye diving zone. It is reached through the sea rather than through a land entrance.
Ambar gediği is an open-air memorial recorded as a historic=memorial feature near Bozkonur Tepesi in Dalaman district, Muğla Province, Türkiye. It is a small, place-specific point of interest rather than a museum, staffed monument complex or enclosed attraction.
Amfi Tiyatro is the open-air performance venue within Milas Municipality’s Atatürk Kültür Merkezi complex in Hayıtlı Mahallesi.
Amos amphitheatre
Amos amphitheatre is the surviving theatre of an ancient Hellenistic settlement on Asarcık Hill, above the north-western side of Kumlubük Bay near Marmaris.
amfi tiyatro
Amfi Tiyatro is the surviving theatre within Kadyanda, also known as Cadianda Ancient City, in the uplands near Fethiye, Muğla.
Bodrum’s Amphitheatre is the ancient theatre of Halicarnassus, built into the southern slope of Göktepe in Yeniköy Mahallesi. Dating to the 4th century BC, it connects modern Bodrum with the classical city.
Anchor was a former restaurant, cafe and bar at Manastır Caddesi 3 in Güllük, within Milas district of Muğla. Its recorded identity belongs to a casual coastal hospitality venue, not to a monument, museum or ticketed attraction.
Ancient Loryma is the archaeological site identified with Bozukkale, on the hill at the entrance to Bozukkale Bay on the Bozburun Peninsula in Marmaris district of Muğla.
Ancient Sardis Ruins preserve Sardis, capital of the Lydian Kingdom, in Sart in Salihli district of Manisa. Lydian, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine layers meet across this open archaeological landscape.
Ancient site at Sarıçam is a recorded archaeological area in Saruhanlı district of Manisa Province.
The Ancient Theater is a roughly 5,000-seat performance space within Kaunos Ancient City in Çandır, across the Dalyan River from Dalyan in Muğla Province.
Ancient Water Reservoir is a small water-management structure on Gemile Island, off Fethiye in Muğla Province. Its importance comes from its setting: an inhabited island needed dependable ways to collect and store water alongside churches, tombs and settlement buildings.
Ancient water well is a mapped archaeological feature in the Söğüt area of Marmaris district, Muğla, at 36.65638, 28.08556. It is associated with the ancient settlement known as Thyssanos, also called Saranda in municipal visitor material.
Anfi Tiyatro is an open-air performance venue in Turgutreis, Bodrum, Muğla, also identified in municipal event information as Turgutreis D-Marin Amfi Tiyatro. Its stepped seating faces an outdoor stage beside the D-Marin waterfront and near Şevket Sabancı Parkı.
Anıtsal Çınar is a recognised memorial plane tree near Hisarönü in Marmaris district, Muğla. Its identity is unusual because the landmark is both a living tree and a recorded monument: the OpenStreetMap entry applies the tags historic=monument and natural=tree.
Ankara Roma Tiyatrosu is an archaeological theatre in Ulus, Ankara’s historic core, within Altındağ district.
Annex Church is a named archaeological ruin within the Gemiler Island archaeological area, off the Fethiye coast in Muğla Province. Its identity is tied to a particular island settlement and to the water approach from Gemiler Cove, near Kayaköy.
Apollonis is an ancient settlement in Manisa Province’s Akhisar district, identified with the rural remains around Konurca Kalesi. The site is reached from the vicinity of Mecidiye/Palamut village, with the archaeological area lying approximately 2 kilometres north of the village.
Aptalhöyük is an archaeological mound near Gökçetoprak village in Gülşehir district of Nevşehir. Its identity is tied to the mound itself and to the cultivated landscape around it, rather than to a museum, restored monument or visitor centre.
Akvaryum Koyu
Akvaryum Koyu is a natural cove in Muğla’s Datça district, on the coast east of Palamutbükü.
Arkas Sanat Alaçatı is a gallery and cultural centre in Alaçatı, Çeşme, built around the Lucien Arkas Exhibition Hall and the Arkas Sanat Collection.
Arkeoloji Müzesi is an archaeology museum identified by this Muğla record. The place should be treated as its own museum entry, separate from Marmaris Museum and the locations associated with Marmaris Castle, Tepe Mahallesi, Kaleiçi Mevkii, and Kemeraltı Mahallesi.
Asaardi Yolu
Asaardi Yolu is a named rural junction on the Lycian Way in Muğla Province, where an outdoor road connection meets a long-distance walking route. Its identity comes from movement through the landscape rather than a building, collection or staffed attraction.
Asarburnu Kalesi is an open-air archaeological ruin in the Kapıkırı–Bafa surroundings, within the wider Herakleia–Latmos historic landscape. The surviving castle remains stand in open countryside rather than inside a restored monument, museum or enclosed attraction.
Asarlik Kale is a hilltop archaeological ruin near Taşlıca in Marmaris district, where the remains are encountered in their original rural setting rather than inside a restored building or museum.
Asklepion
Asklepion is Pergamon’s ancient healing sanctuary, founded in the 4th century BC for Asklepios, the god associated with medicine. Its identity comes from the way a sacred precinct organised healing, movement and public experience together.
Aşıklı Dağı Günbatımı Alanı is an open-air sunset viewpoint on the slopes of Aşıklı Dağı, in Nevşehir’s Merkez district near Göre and Güvercinlik.
Asklepion is a healing sanctuary near Bergama, arranged as a connected landscape of approach, worship, public gathering and treatment. The long Via Tecta leads towards the monumental propylon and the principal sacred area.
Asmalı Konak is a historic Ürgüp building now presented by its operator as Asmalı Konak Cave Suites, a hotel with restaurant and cafe services.
Atatürk Anıtı, officially named Atatürk ve Milli Egemenlik Anıtı, stands in Cumhuriyet Meydanı in Manisa’s Şehzadeler district.
Atatürk Anıtı is an outdoor civic monument in the open area before Nevşehir Hükümet Konağı. It is not a museum or enclosed attraction; its significance comes from its place within the city’s administrative landscape and public commemorative life.
Avcılar vadisi
Avcılar vadisi is a named open-air valley in the Göreme area of Nevşehir, positioned at 38.63975° north and 34.82005° east. Its identity comes from the landscape itself: pale eroded tuff, valley cuts, ridges and the fairy-chimney scenery associated with Cappadocia.
Ayvali Kilise is a rock-cut church in Güllüdere 2 Valley, on the eastern side of Güllüdere Valley near Çavuşin village in Avanos, Nevşehir. Its inscription dates the church to 913–920, during Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos’s reign.
The Balloon Viewing Area is a dedicated outdoor lookout in Göreme, Nevşehir, for seeing Cappadocia’s hot-air balloons above the region’s valleys and rock formations.
Balon Kalkış Alanı
Balon Kalkış Alanı is an outdoor launch point in the Göreme area of Nevşehir, at 38.65482, 34.83946. It belongs to Cappadocia’s regulated commercial hot-air-balloon activity, where visitors may watch preparation, inflation, and departures against the region’s distinctive terrain.
Akropoldeki Bazilika
Akropoldeki Bazilika is an exposed basilica ruin in the acropolis of Iasos, the ancient settlement at Kıyıkışlacık in Muğla’s Milas district.
The Basilica of St John stands in the middle of modern Alaşehir, on the ground of ancient Philadelphia, one of the seven cities addressed directly in the Book of Revelation.
The Bath-Gymnasium Complex is one of the major surviving architectural groups at Sardes, the ancient city known today as Sardis, near Sart in Manisa Province.
Turistik Demirciler Çarşısı
Turistik Demirciler Çarşısı is a historic market quarter in Beypazarı district centre, around İrfan Gümüşel Caddesi.
Beçin Kalesi
Beçin Kalesi is a fortified archaeological settlement on a plateau roughly 200 metres above the plain, about 5 km south of Milas in Muğla Province.
Bektaş Efendi Türbesi is a compact memorial building in Bala Mahallesi, at the centre of Hacıbektaş in Nevşehir Province. Its inscription records construction in Hijri 1012, corresponding to 1603.
Churche and rooms for pigeons
Churche and rooms for pigeons identifies a small group of carved spaces in the Üzengi Valley near Ürgüp, Nevşehir. Its distinctive subject is the meeting of two uses cut into Cappadocia’s rock landscape: churches and dovecotes.
Blue Lagoon is the lagoon landscape within Ölüdeniz–Kıdrak Nature Park in Ölüdeniz, Fethiye, Muğla.
Bodrum Windmills are eight historic stone structures on Değirmenburnu ridge, arranged in a north–south line between Bodrum and Gümbet in Eskiçeşme. They are remnants of local grain-milling infrastructure, not an operating museum or a modern attraction built for display.
Çakallar is a protected open-air heritage locality on a volcanic hillside near Sindel, also called Akçeşme, in Salihli district, Manisa. Its defining evidence is a group of fossilised human and animal footprints preserved as impressions in volcanic tuff.
Çakırca Basalt Columns are a natural volcanic formation in Çakırca village, within Manisa’s Kula district. The dark rock belongs to the landscape of the Kula Volcanic Geopark and is associated with first-stage lava flows of the Burgaz volcanites.
Camel Rock is a natural volcanic formation at the entrance to Devrent Valley, the Cappadocian landscape also known as Imagination Valley. Its profile is recognised as a kneeling camel: the hump, sloping neck and head emerge from weathered tuff.
Canyon path is the marked walking line through Kızılçukur Valley, beginning at the Kızılçukur sunset viewpoint above Ortahisar and continuing toward Çavuşin. Its identity is defined by a one-way valley crossing rather than by a single building or viewpoint.
Çatal Höyük is a registered archaeological site in Küllüce Village, within Kozaklı district of Nevşehir Province. Its identity is tied to a protected rural settlement landscape rather than to a museum building, excavation gallery, or staffed attraction.
Çat Vadisi is a volcanic-tuff valley in Çat Beldesi, within Nevşehir Merkez, where fairy chimneys, sculpted rock formations, natural caves and rock-cut pigeon houses appear together in one open landscape.
Cave is a small mapped rock feature in Nevşehir’s Cappadocia landscape, where a hollowed opening is the attraction itself. Its character comes from the meeting of an intimate stone detail with the wider volcanic terrain around it.
Cave Beehive is a small cave-like historic remain in the rock landscape near Göreme, in Nevşehir Province’s Avanos district area.
Cave Beehive is a small outdoor rock-cut remnant in Avanos district, at approximately 38.6556686, 34.8542411. Its defining subject is the surviving carved form, encountered among Cappadocia’s volcanic-rock valleys rather than inside a museum or a fully enclosed cave complex.
Cave House is a hotel in Uçhisar, Nevşehir, offering accommodation in cave-and-stone suites. It is a place to stay rather than a museum or separately ticketed cave attraction.
Local Cave House is a twelve-room hotel built into the rock-carved hillside above Göreme. The operator describes a traditional family home restored in 1998, bought by the Kocaturk Family in 2004, and transformed into a cave hotel.
Cave house is an exterior cave-house landmark mapped in Nevşehir province. Its interest lies in the visible relationship between local rock, carved or adapted cave space, and the surrounding settlement landscape.
Cave House is a small historic monument in Göreme, Nevşehir, positioned within the district’s distinctive cave-and-valley landscape.
Cave House (entrance up through bottom chimney) is a small, distinctive rock-cut landmark in Güllüdere Valley, between Göreme and Çavuşin in Nevşehir Province.
Cave pigeon-loft is a small rock-cut pigeon house in the Göreme Archaeological Site area of Göreme, Nevşehir. Its carved openings belong to Cappadocia’s working landscape, alongside the better-known churches and chapels.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
