Topic
Great Outdoors
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99 pieces on this topic
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Place · Mediterranean
Karatepe-Aslantaş
Karatepe-Aslantaş in Osmaniye Province: a Neo-Hittite fortress of the 8th century BC whose gates still hold their carved reliefs and the bilingual…
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Place · Mediterranean
Lake Salda
Lake Salda in Burdur: a deep turquoise lake with a white mineral shore that NASA called the closest match on Earth to…
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Place · Black Sea
Kaçkar Mountains
The Kaçkar Mountains above the eastern Black Sea: granite peaks to 3,937 m, glacial lakes, high summer pastures and the base village…
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Place · Black Sea
Ayder
Ayder in the Kaçkar Mountains above Rize: a green high pasture of wooden houses, waterfalls and spruce forest, with a hot spring,…
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Place · Istanbul
Gülhane Park
Gülhane Park, the oldest public park in Istanbul: the old outer garden of Topkapı Palace, with plane trees, tulip beds in spring,…
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Place · Istanbul
Belgrad Forest
Belgrad Forest north of Istanbul: 5,500 hectares of oak woods with Ottoman dams, Sinan's aqueducts and a 6.5 km (4 mile) running…
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Place · Istanbul
Polonezköy
Polonezköy, the Polish village of Istanbul: founded in 1842 by Polish exiles in the forests of the Asian side, with a Catholic…
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Place · Istanbul
Heybeliada
Heybeliada, the second largest of Istanbul's Princes' Islands: pine woods on four hills, wooden mansions, the Halki Seminary, the last Byzantine church…
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Place · Mediterranean
Lake Eğirdir
Lake Eğirdir in Isparta: Turkey's second-largest freshwater lake, with an old town on a peninsula, a castle and the island guesthouses of…