Tillo
Tillo is a small historic town in Siirt Province, southeastern Türkiye, known for its madrasas, its stone architecture and its long association with Islamic scholarship.
Villages & Small towns
Beypazarı
Beypazarı is a district town in Ankara Province where a large stock of Ottoman-era houses still lines the old streets, and where mineral water springs, silver filigree work and carrot growing shape daily life. It is an easy inland counterpart to the better-known historic towns of Anatolia.
Safranbolu
Safranbolu is a UNESCO-listed Ottoman town in Karabük Province, built around a ravine bazaar and known for hundreds of timber-framed houses, historic bathhouses and the saffron that gave the town its name.
Şenyuva
Şenyuva is a small village in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize, set in the forested Fırtına Valley and known for a historic stone arch bridge and its dense stock of traditional Black Sea houses.
Amasra
Amasra is a small district town in Bartın Province, built on a fortified peninsula on Turkey's Black Sea coast, with two sheltered bays, Byzantine and Genoese walls, and a long history reaching back to the ancient city of Amastris.
Huser
Huser is a seasonal yayla plateau in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize, high on the Kaçkar slopes above the Fırtına Valley, known for timber houses, summer pasture life and fast-changing mountain weather.
Gito
Gito Yaylası is a seasonal highland settlement in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize, set in the Kaçkar Mountains above the Black Sea valleys and known for its wooden yayla houses, open meadows and summer pasture life.
Pokut
Pokut is a traditional highland settlement in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize, set on the northern slopes of the Kaçkar Mountains and known for its wooden houses, summer pasture life and persistent mountain fog.
Ayder
Ayder is a highland village in the Çamlıhemşin district of Rize, set in the Kaçkar Mountains and known above all for its thermal springs, timber architecture and waterfalls.
Kale
A working agricultural town on Antalya's Lycian coast, Kale — now usually called Demre — contains the Roman city of Myra, its cliff-cut Lycian rock tombs, a Byzantine church linked to St. Nicholas and the ancient harbour of Andriake.
Gelemiş
Gelemiş is a farming village in the Kaş district of Antalya, set on a coastal plain immediately beside the ruins of Patara and the long sandy beach that once served one of Lycia's most important harbour cities.
Uzungöl
Uzungöl is a highland village in Trabzon's Çaykara district, wrapped around a dark mountain lake held back by a landslide dam and surrounded by dense Black Sea forest.
Alaçatı
Alaçatı is a small Aegean town on the Çeşme Peninsula in İzmir Province, recognised for its stone houses, hilltop windmills and the steady wind that has made its bay a centre for windsurfing.
Gümüşlük
Gümüşlük is a former fishing village on the western tip of the Bodrum peninsula in Muğla, Türkiye, built over the ancient city of Myndos and known for its sunset views across the bay and its seafood culture.
Yalıkavak
Yalıkavak is a coastal neighbourhood of Bodrum district in Muğla Province, on the northern shore of the Bodrum Peninsula. It is known for its large marina, a group of old stone windmills on the ridge above the bay, and a town centre that still carries traces of its fishing-village past.
Kayaköy
Kayaköy is a deserted Greek Orthodox village in the Fethiye district of Muğla, where hundreds of stone houses, two churches and cobbled lanes survive on a hillside above the coast.
Faralya
Faralya is a small village in the Fethiye district of Muğla, perched on a pine-covered ridge directly above Butterfly Valley and used as a stage point on the Lycian Way. Its position high above the sea, rather than at the shoreline, is what sets it apart from the resorts around it.
Kabak
Kabak is a secluded village and beach in Muğla, Turkey, known for its unspoiled beauty and relaxed atmosphere. It is a popular stop on the Lycian Way, offering a pebble beach, steep cliffs, and simple accommodations.
Çıralı
Çıralı is a small protected coastal settlement in Antalya Province, where a loggerhead turtle nesting beach meets the Lycian and Roman ruins of Olympos.
Adrasan
Adrasan is a small coastal village in Antalya's Kumluca district, built around a sheltered bay where pine-covered hills meet a long beach. It is a stop on the Lycian Way and a starting point for boat trips along the surrounding coves.
Babakale
Babakale is a village in Ayvacık, Çanakkale, standing at Cape Baba, the westernmost tip of the Anatolian mainland, where an 18th-century castle overlooks a small fishing harbour and olive-covered hills.
Assos
Assos is an ancient city and hilltop village in Çanakkale province, Türkiye, known for its Temple of Athena and for the years the philosopher Aristotle spent here. The modern settlement, Behramkale, sits above the ruins and an old harbour on the Aegean coast facing Lesbos.
Yeşilyurt: A Stone Village on the Slopes of Kazdağı, Çanakkale
Yeşilyurt is a traditional mountain village in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale, built on the slopes of Kazdağı and known for its stone houses and olive oil.
Küçükkuyu
Küçükkuyu is a coastal town in Çanakkale Province, Turkey, at the foot of Kazdağı and surrounded by olive groves. Known for its seafood and proximity to ancient Assos, it offers a mix of Aegean coastline and mountain scenery.
Bademli, Çanakkale: An Olive-Farming Village on the Slopes of Mount Ida
Bademli is a hillside village in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale Province, set on the slopes of Kazdağı (Mount Ida) and known for its traditional stone houses and long tradition of olive oil production.
Sığacık
Sığacık is a small Aegean coastal town in İzmir Province, in the Seferihisar district, recognised for its Genoese castle walls, its working boat harbor and its traditional stone houses.
Adatepe
Adatepe is a stone-built mountain village in the Ayvacık district of Çanakkale, set on the Aegean slopes of Kazdağı above Küçükkuyu, known for its preserved stone houses, olive groves and the Zeus Altar viewpoint overlooking the Gulf of Edremit.
Karina
Karina is a small village in Aydın province, Türkiye, sitting on land that belonged to ancient Ionia. It is a quiet, working rural settlement where scattered ancient remains survive among fields and houses rather than being set apart as a monument.
Doğanbey
Doğanbey is a village in the Söke district of Aydın, split between a modern settlement on the plain and an older, largely abandoned quarter of stone houses once inhabited by a Greek community. Its hilltop streets and coastal setting make it one of the more distinctive places on the Aegean edge of Türkiye.
Soğanlı
Soğanlı is a small village in Kayseri Province, Türkiye, set in a secluded Cappadocian valley known for its rock-cut churches with Byzantine frescoes. It offers a quiet, rural alternative to the more visited Cappadocia sites.
İbrahimpaşa
İbrahimpaşa is a farming village in Nevşehir Province, Cappadocia, known for a rock-cut underground city and traditional cave dwellings. It offers a quieter, far less developed look at Cappadocian village life near Ürgüp.
Kapıkırı
Kapıkırı is a small lakeside village in Milas, Muğla, built directly over the ancient city of Herakleia ad Latmum on the southern shore of Lake Bafa. Ancient walls, cut stones and shoreline ruins are woven into the settlement, with the Latmus mountains rising immediately behind it.
Uçhisar
Uçhisar is a small town in the Nevşehir province of Cappadocia, built around a huge volcanic rock fortress that rises above the surrounding valleys and fairy chimneys.
Çavuşin: Cappadocia's Old Cave Village and Its Rock-Cut Churches
Çavuşin is a village in Nevşehir Province, Cappadocia, split between an abandoned settlement of cave dwellings carved into a tuff outcrop and a newer village on the plain below. Its rock-cut Church of St. John the Baptist is among the largest in the region.
Ortahisar
Ortahisar is a small Cappadocian town in Nevşehir Province, built around a massive rock castle and shaped by carved cave houses, stone streets and old storage tunnels.
Trilye
Trilye, also known as Tirilye or Zeytinbağı, is a coastal town in Mudanya, Bursa, with a rich Greek heritage, traditional stone houses, and extensive olive groves.
Şirince
Şirince is a hillside village in İzmir's Selçuk district, known for fruit wine, surviving Greek Orthodox buildings and whitewashed houses with terracotta roofs that climb a slope above the plain.
Cumalıkızık
Cumalıkızık is a historic Ottoman village in Bursa, Turkey, known for its well-preserved houses and cobblestone streets. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site 'Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire'.
Mustafapaşa
Mustafapaşa is a historic village in the Cappadocia region of Nevşehir, close to Ürgüp, known for its surviving Greek mansions, stone streets and rock-cut churches.
Gölyazı
Gölyazı is a lakeside village in Bursa province, built on a low peninsula in Lake Uluabat, where narrow stone-and-timber lanes, a working fishing harbour and Byzantine ruins sit together on the water.
Akyaka
Akyaka is a small settlement in Ula district, Muğla, on the Gulf of Gökova, recognised for its white Ula-style houses with timber bay windows and for the cold, clear Azmak River that runs through it to the sea.
Gölyazı
Gölyazı is a small lakeside settlement near Bursa, built on a peninsula extending into Lake Uluabat and surrounded by water, wetlands and open countryside.