Marmara

  • Canakkale

    Çanakkale sits on the Dardanelles, the narrow strait that links the Aegean to the Sea of Marmara, and it is the base for two of the most visited historic landscapes in the country: ancient Troy and the Gallipoli Peninsula. It also gives access to two islands with very different characters, Gökçeada and Bozcaada, and to…

  • Bursa

    Bursa was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, set on the slopes of Uludağ across the Sea of Marmara from Istanbul. Its early sultans built mosques, tombs, baths and inns here, and UNESCO inscribed the city and the nearby village of Cumalıkızık in 2014 as the birthplace of the Ottoman state. Today it is…

  • Istanbul

    Istanbul is the only major city in the world on two continents, a metropolis of more than 15 million people stretched along the Bosphorus between Europe and Asia. For 1,600 years it was the capital of empires, and its skyline of domes, minarets and palaces is the reason most visitors come. It is also a…