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.
Central Anatolia
Museums in Kayseri
5 museums and archaeological sites in the province of Kayseri, with hours and what to see at each.
Kayseri
Güpgüpoğlu Mansion Ethnography Museum
Kayseri's oldest surviving house, parts dating to 1419-1497, split into a selamlık ethnography museum and a haremlik furnished as a period home. Closed for renovation.
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Kayseri
Kayseri Archaeological Museum
Kayseri's main archaeological museum, in a 1969 building, with a collection shaped by the digs at Kültepe (Kaniş), the ancient Assyrian trading colony nearby.
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Kayseri
Kayseri Atatürk House Museum
A 19th-century Ottoman mansion in Kayseri where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed for two nights in December 1919, now a small museum about that visit.
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Kayseri
Kültepe Archaeological Site
The ancient city of Kaniş near Kayseri, capital of a Bronze Age kingdom and hub of the Assyrian trade colonies, where cuneiform tablets reveal early merchant life.
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Kayseri
Soğanlı Archaeological Site
A quiet Cappadocian valley near Yeşilhisar where rock-cut churches, pigeon houses and fairy chimneys sit among village houses.
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Istanbul 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.