Topkapı Palace
The sultans’ palace on Sarayburnu: courtyards, the Imperial Council, the treasury and the terraces over the water. Dated entry, sold online on its own site.
Eastern Anatolia
Museums in Erzurum
5 museums and archaeological sites in the province of Erzurum, with hours and what to see at each.
Erzurum
Erzurum Atatürk House Museum
The mansion where Mustafa Kemal and his companions worked for 52 days in 1919, during the Erzurum Congress, now a museum of the National Struggle.
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Erzurum
Erzurum Castle
A hilltop citadel in the heart of Erzurum, with an inner fortress, eight surviving towers and the early Turkish-Islamic Tepsi Minaret.
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Erzurum
Erzurum Museum
Erzurum's archaeology museum, with finds from Karaz, Pulur, Sos and İkiztepe, Urartian and Roman works, gold jewellery and a natural history hall.
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Erzurum
Erzurum Painting and Sculpture Museum
The historic Erzurum Congress building, once an Armenian girls' boarding school, now run as a painting and sculpture museum and gallery.
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Erzurum
Turkish and Islamic Arts and Ethnography Museum
Erzurum's museum is the Yakutiye Madrasa, a 1310 Ilkhanid-era college with a carved portal and tiled minaret, now showing regional ethnography and Turkish-Islamic objects.
Visitor guideIstanbul tickets online
Four Istanbul landmarks, each sold on its own site by the agency behind this guide — dated entry and free cancellation up to 24 hours.
Basilica Cistern
Justinian’s great underground reservoir: 336 columns in still water and the two Medusa heads. Fast-track entry with a digital audio guide.
Hagia Sophia
Justinian’s cathedral, the sultans’ mosque and a working mosque again today. The ticket admits you to the upper visitor gallery.
Dolmabahçe Palace
A nineteenth-century palace on the water’s edge: the Selamlık, the Ceremonial Hall under its chandelier, the crystal staircase and the Harem.