In İstanbul, at the crossroads of two continents, and the Sea of Marmara, where East and West collide...
Ballıkayalar Nature Park is located in the west of Kocaeli, only an hour's drive from İstanbul.
Belgrad Forest is located on the European Side of İstanbul. The forest is bordered on the north by the Black Sea and on the east by the Bosphorus.
A natural wonder in the Çınarcık district of Yalova, in the south of the Marmara Sea, near Teşvikiye Village: Erikli Highland.
Uçmakdere is roughly a two-hour drive from İstanbul, in the Şarköy district of Tekirdağ, İstanbul's western neighbour.
Evliya Çelebi was an eminent Ottoman scholar who was born in the early 17th century and travelled extensively throughout Anatolia, Europe, and Egypt during his lifetime, compiling his observations in a 10-volume Travel Book.
Via Egnatia is a road that unites East and West, dating back to the second century BC, built under the control of the Roman Republic, one of the important powers of the period.
On 30th April 311, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued the world's first known Edict of Tolerance.
The Sufi Trail is a long-distance hiking and biking trail from Istanbul to Konya. The length is 801 km, and it would take an average person 40 days to complete the Sufi Trail.