Places to visit in Çanakkale
8 places from Çanakkale province are on the map: Conkbayırı, Troy, Dardanelles & Kilitbahir, Assos, Bozcaada, Gökçeada, and 2 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Conkbayırı
“What is this war of the Strait? Has it any equal in the world?” asks Mehmet Akif in his poem ‘To the Martyrs of Çanakkale’. If any place can answer this question, it is surely Conkbayırı…
See on the map →Troy
“Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus…” So begins Homer’s ‘Iliad’. Perhaps the very first sentence of Western literature tells the story of a rage; and the place where that…
See on the map →Dardanelles & Kilitbahir
Can you put a lock on a sea? Had we asked Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, he would probably have smiled and pointed to the narrowest point of the Dardanelles… The fortresses he built in 1462…
See on the map →Assos
“All men by nature desire to know.” This is the first sentence of Aristotle’s ‘Metaphysics’. But did you know that the man who wrote it once lived in a city on the volcanic hill of Assos…
See on the map →Bozcaada
“In sight lies Tenedos, an island known far and wide by fame…” Virgil tells us in his epic, the ‘Aeneid’. The Achaeans, who had besieged Troy for ten years, finally devised a trick: leaving…
See on the map →Gökçeada
Where in Turkey does the sun set last? The answer is a mountainous island rising in the middle of the Aegean, at the mouth of the Dardanelles: Gökçeada… The country’s westernmost point lies…
See on the map →Seddülbahir & Alçıtepe
“Halt, traveler! This ground you tread unknowing / Is where an age went down.” These lines by Necmettin Halil Onan quietly greet every visitor who comes to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Further…
See on the map →1915 Çanakkale Bridge
Can a king be angry at the sea? According to Herodotus, yes… In 480 BC, the Persian King Xerxes had a bridge of ships built across the Dardanelles to carry his army into Greece. But when a…
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