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Things to do in Çanakkale
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Sightlore has 31 places to explore in Çanakkale, and 31 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Çanakkale's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Assos
Assos was an ancient Greek city near today's Behramkale or Behram for short, which most people still call by its ancient name of Assos. It is located on the Aegean coast in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey.
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Chryse (Apollo Smintheus)
Chryse, or Chrysa, was a town of the ancient Troad, mentioned by Pliny as being on the coast north of Cape Lectum. The site of Chryse is located near modern Göztepe.
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Alexandria Troas
Alexandria Troas is the site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, the area known historically as Troad, a little south of Tenedos (modern Bozcaada).
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Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial
The Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial is a war memorial commemorating the service of about 253,000 Turkish soldiers who participated at the Battle of Gallipoli, which took place from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War.
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57th Infantry Regiment Memorial
The 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial is a Turkish war memorial commemorating the men of the Ottoman 57th Infantry Regiment who died during the Gallipoli campaign.
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Troy Museum
The Museum of Troy is an archaeological museum located close to the archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy, in present-day northwestern Turkey.
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Chunuk Bair (Conkbayırı)
Chunuk Bair is one of the highest ridges of the Gallipoli Peninsula. In fierce fighting in August 1915 troops under Mustafa Kemal retook it; the summit has an Atatürk statue, a Turkish memorial and the New Zealand memorial.
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Helles Memorial to the Missing
The Helles Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Sedd el Bahr, in Turkey, on the headland at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula overlooking the Dardanelles.
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ANZAC Cove
ANZAC Cove is a small cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.
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Troy (Hisarlık)
Troy or Ilion was an ancient city located in present-day Çanakkale, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War.
Discovery routes in Çanakkale
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Gallipoli Historical Site
From the Kabatepe Visitor Centre to Anzac Cove, Lone Pine, the 57th Regiment Memorial and Chunuk Bair; then the Helles Memorial at Seddülbahir and the Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial.
Troy and Assos
The Troy Museum and legendary Troy, Alexandria Troas, the temple of Apollo Smintheus and Assos with its Temple of Athena above the sea.
Places to visit
Historic sites
ANZAC Cove
ANZAC Cove is a small cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey.
Troy (Hisarlık)
Troy or Ilion was an ancient city located in present-day Çanakkale, Turkey. It is best known as the setting for the Greek myth of the Trojan War.
Alexandria Troas
Alexandria Troas is the site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, the area known historically as Troad, a little south of Tenedos (modern Bozcaada).
Chryse (Apollo Smintheus)
Chryse, or Chrysa, was a town of the ancient Troad, mentioned by Pliny as being on the coast north of Cape Lectum. The site of Chryse is located near modern Göztepe.
Assos
Assos was an ancient Greek city near today's Behramkale or Behram for short, which most people still call by its ancient name of Assos. It is located on the Aegean coast in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province, Turkey.
1915 Çanakkale Bridge
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge is a road suspension bridge in the province of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey, first opened on 18 March 2022. Situated just southwest of the coastal towns of Lapseki and Gelibolu, the bridge spans the Dardanelles, about ten kilometres (six miles)…
Abydos
Abydos was an ancient city and bishopric in Mysia. It was located at the Nara Burnu promontory on the Asian coast of the Hellespont (the straits of Dardanelles), opposite the ancient city of Sestos, and near the city of Çanakkale in Turkey.
Agora
Agora, also called Cherronesos or Chersonesos (Ancient Greek: Χερρόνησος, Χερσόνησος; IPA(key): /kʰer.ró.nɛː.sos/, /kʰer.só.nɛː.sos/), was an ancient Greek town in Thrace.
White Bridge
The White Bridge was a Roman bridge across the river Granicus in Mysia in the north west of modern-day Turkey. Presumably constructed in the 4th century AD, it belonged in Ottoman times to the important road to Gallipoli on the Dardanelles.
Bozcaada Castle
Bozcaada Castle is a castle in the Turkish island of Bozcaada (known as Tenedos before the 15th century).
Dardanos
Dardanus or Dardanum was an ancient city in the Troad. It was sometimes called Dardania, a term used also for the district around it. Pliny the Elder called it Dardanium (Latin neuter singular).
Elaeus
Elaeus, the “Olive City”, was an ancient Greek city located in Thrace, on the Thracian Chersonese.
Hamaxitus
Hamaxitus was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia which was considered to mark the boundary between the Troad and Aeolis.
Kilitbahir Castle
Kilitbahir Castle is a fortress on the west side of the Dardanelles, opposite the city of Çanakkale, where there is a corresponding fortress (Kale-i Sultaniye), from which Çanakkale takes its name.
Lampsacus
Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city located in modern day Turkey, situated on the eastern side of the Hellespont in the northern Troad. An inhabitant of Lampsacus was called a Lampsacene.
Lancashire Landing Cemetery
Lancashire Landing Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. It contains the graves of some of the Allied troops killed during the Battle of Gallipoli.
Sestos
Sestos was an ancient city in Thrace. It was located at the Thracian Chersonese peninsula on the European coast of the Hellespont, opposite the ancient city of Abydos, and near the town of Eceabat in Turkey.
Scepsis
Scepsis or Skepsis was an ancient settlement in the Troad, Asia Minor that is at the present site of the village of Kurşunlutepe, near the town of Bayramiç in Turkey.
Zeytinlik Archeological Site
Zeytinlik (Uğurlu) Höyük is a prehistoric mound on the west side of Gökçeada, near the village of Uğurlu, with layers from the Neolithic onwards.
Museums
Kabatepe Visitor Centre
Kabatepe, or Gaba Tepe, is a headland overlooking the northern Aegean Sea in what is now the Gallipoli Peninsula National Historical Park (tr), on the Gallipoli peninsula in northwestern Turkey.
Troy Museum
The Museum of Troy is an archaeological museum located close to the archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy, in present-day northwestern Turkey.
Çanakkale Archaeological Museum
Çanakkale Archaeological Museum was a museum in Çanakkale, Turkey. Its contents have been moved to the 2018-established Troy Museum, close to the excavation site of the ancient Greek city of Troy.
Gelibolu War Museum
Gelibolu War Museum is a museum in Gelibolu, Turkey.
Çimenlik Castle
Kale-i Sultaniye (formerly Kal'a-i Sultaniye) or Çimenlik Castle is a castle which was built on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles in Turkey in 1462. Today, it is part of the Çanakkale Naval Museum.
Places of worship
Yeşilyurt Village Mosque
Yeşilyurt Village Mosque is a historical mosque built in the Ottoman period (1900s). The mosque located in Yeşilyurt Village of Ayvacık district of Çanakkale province. At the entrance of the mosque, there is the date of 1322 Hijri.
Monuments
Lone Pine Memorial and Cemetery
Lone Pine Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War I in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey and the location of the Lone Pine Memorial, one of five memorials on the peninsula which commemorate servicemen of the…
57th Infantry Regiment Memorial
The 57th Infantry Regiment Memorial is a Turkish war memorial commemorating the men of the Ottoman 57th Infantry Regiment who died during the Gallipoli campaign.
Chunuk Bair (Conkbayırı)
Chunuk Bair is one of the highest ridges of the Gallipoli Peninsula. In fierce fighting in August 1915 troops under Mustafa Kemal retook it; the summit has an Atatürk statue, a Turkish memorial and the New Zealand memorial.
Helles Memorial to the Missing
The Helles Memorial is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Sedd el Bahr, in Turkey, on the headland at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula overlooking the Dardanelles.
Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial
The Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial is a war memorial commemorating the service of about 253,000 Turkish soldiers who participated at the Battle of Gallipoli, which took place from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War.
Respect to Mehmetçik Monument
The Respect to Mehmetçik Memorial is a monument in the Gallipoli peninsula, Çanakkale Province, Turkey.
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