Canakkale

Turkey

Çanakkale is a city on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles strait in northwestern Turkey. A strategic crossing since antiquity, it is best known as the gateway to the Gallipoli battlefields of the First World War and to ancient Troy. Visitors can see the wooden horse from the Troy film on the waterfront, the Çimenlik fortress, and travel to Troy's ruins and museum, the Gallipoli peninsula's cemeteries and memorials, and the island of Bozcaada.