A Legendary Town: Gallipoli
Hey guys! How are you? I’m great! Here i am again with a travel article. I gonna talk about a cute, historycal and coastal district in this blog. It’s Gelibolu! This district is really important about marine and the sea. If we translate to english this district, we call Gallipoli. Absolutely a must visit place! Especially if you wonder history of sea and sailors. Alright, let’s take a look where it is located.
Dear
friends, Gallipoli is 50 km away from my hometown. So, 50 km east away from my
home as my compass. If we looking map of Turkey, it’s located West, connecting
to Çanakkale province. But Çanakkale also connecting 2 continents like
İstanbul. Their are Asia and Europe. Gallipoli is located European side like my
hometown. And also it’s give same name itself all of ‘Gallipoli peninsula’. If
anyone of Turk ask me where i’m from, i say clearly Gallipoli peninsula.
I visited many times in this district a looof of years ago. But 2 mounts ago visited again with my wife. I was feeling love again! I just wanted to show my wife to there frankly, but everything was changed when i arrived there. J I missed, reaally missed! When you arrive there and get off the bus, the sea smell welcomes you first. And then you look around, a big port, little shops and little fishing boats say you welcome. Please imagine this! It was wonderful guys!
Dear
friends, if you wanna visit there, i gonna share our experiences with you.
You’ll be do perfect trip after read this blog. I gonna say where you visit
important, beautiul and historycal places, what about you’ll eat foods, what
you’ll do more and everyting. If you ready? Here we go!
Firstly,
you’ll open your navigator if you have a car and you’ll write there Gelibolu
wherever you in Turkey or abroad. No more you do, navigator will bring you
there. When you arrived, i recommend to you first visit fishing port. Little, cute fishing boats and really historical
casttle walls are welcomes you. You can take photos whichever you want!
If
you haven’t a car and you’re in Turkey, you can say to bus companies want to go
Gallipoli. They’ll help you and warn when you arrived in there. After visit
fishing port and tooks a lot of photos, you can go to visit Piri Reis Museum. This museum is so
close to fishing port. It’s also there, just you need to 100 steps for find it.
J Alright, now we can talk about this museum! Why
it’s so important for visit and who is Piri
Reis? Let’s talk.
Alright
guys! First, i wanna talk about Piri reis. Why he so important for Turkish
marine history? Yeah, actually he was a big Turkish admiral and sailor. He was
an Ottoman, we talking about between 1465 to 1554 years! He has a really big
history but i’ll keep short for you. Piri Reis was drawed America continent as
perfect while he was travel. He not drew only coast, also people, animals and
looks weird creatures that were there. I’m sharing of his map for more clear
you get it:
Weird,
right? Especially looks terrible creatures. Yeah guys, that’s why he is really
important for us. He was a great sailor and admiral. He was so help us for
understand about marine-world and sailors history. He was a genius about marine
and left us a great legacy about this topic. If you wanna more information about him, you can visit wikipedia!
Alright,
you can see there swords he was use, a lot of maps he was drawed, model ships,
clothes was he weared and more. This museum inside a historical castle, it’s
fascinating too. You feel 15th century
when you enter and walking in this castle. I’ve a good news, entrance is free!
Just you need to know working hours for visit. These are 08:30 to 12:00 for
morning, 13:30 to 17:30 for afternoon. Don’t forget; it’s closed Monday and Thursday.
The
castle have 2 floors. A big little water well welcomes you when you enter. You
go upstairs from left after the enterance visit then little water well. Castle
has narrow and tiring stairs! Up floor has already materials about Piri Reis.
Don’t forget to take some photos too! J
After visit to museum and castle, i suggest
you to visit little, sincere bazaar Street. You should to see even if you don’t
want to buy anything. You’ll feel to missing old, historical sincere atmosphere
in there. Believe me, you never regret for visit! J
After
this Street, you can visit to Süleyman
Pasha Mosque and shrine. It’s
also close to bazaar Street. Just you need to go more up. This mosque also
important legacy from Ottoman Empire! It was built 1385. It was restore 3
times. If you wonder about religional buildings, you can excatly visit there!
Well
dear friends! You visited some places, are you feel hungry? Yeah, i tought so
too. J Time to eat! You find a lot restaurants and foods
in there but if you wanna ask me what can you eat, i can say to you fish sandwich! Yeah, Gallipoli is really
famous about sardine fish. Most tasty and fresh sardine fish caught
from there and distributed every Gallipoli peninsula towns and Çanakkale
province. That’s why, in this fish time
you can find always this fish all of restaurants as fresh and tasty. Fish restaurants are located around of the
fishing port.
Alright,
you ate fish sandwich and feel full! Now you’re in a good mood. What you need
to do now? Of course you’ve to burn what you eat, right? Yeah, let’s some walk
of Gallipoli coast cordon! It’s located right of the ending fishing port. How
much we talked about fishing port, realized it? I think Gallipoli center
consist around of the fishing port! J
But
guys, i recommend to you, you can taste peynir
helvası from Çanakkale province famous dessert. Exactly translate english,
we call cheese dessert. I know it
sounds weird but trust me, it’s so tasty! If you wanna taste, you can go to Tarihi Zafer Peynir Helvacısı dessert
shop. It’s mean; historical Zafer cheese
desserter. This shop 70 years old and their chef is really master of this
job. My wife an Ecuadorian, she was love it too. And also you can find fresh
and reaaaly tasty Turkish yogurt in this shop too. Definitely taste these, i
think!
Right
now you’re walking in the Gallipoli coast cordon. It’s a long cordon, only go
and come back end of there it’s enough for you. You can sit some coastal cafes
and drink tea, coffee or cold drinks while you watching sea! It will make you
peaceful and forget your tired of the day because of visited a lot of places. But
becareful, don’t sleep there! J
Alright
dear friends! End of the blog but don’t worry! There are many more places to
explore, i gonna share my other articles. Take care and stay healthy until this
duration! You can text me for your every question by my mail! Good bye, guys! J
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