Explore Çanakkale

Çimenlik Castle, also called Kale-i Sultaniye, was built in 1462 under Mehmed II on the Asian shore of the Dardanelles, opposite Kilitbahir Castle. It now belongs to the Çanakkale Naval Museum: cannons stand in the grounds, the inner keep rises 25 metres, and a British shell fired on 18 March 1915 is still lodged in its northern wall.

Kilitbahir Castle on the European shore of the Dardanelles was built for Sultan Mehmed II around 1463, opposite the castle of Çanakkale, to control the strait at its narrowest point. Its seven-storey inner tower on a triangular plan, the Yellow Tower added under Suleiman I in 1541 and the walls now form a museum of Ottoman castle life.

Lone Pine Cemetery lies on the plateau where Australian troops fought Ottoman forces in the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915. Kept by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, it was enlarged after the war with graves from smaller cemeteries nearby and holds the Lone Pine Memorial, which names Australian and New Zealand soldiers with no known grave.

The Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial is an 18-metre stone obelisk on the summit that New Zealand and British troops held from 8 to 10 August 1915, until an Ottoman counter-attack led by Mustafa Kemal retook it. Unveiled in 1925, it stands beside Chunuk Bair Cemetery, whose panels name about 850 New Zealanders with no known grave, near a statue of Atatürk.

Anzac Cove is a 600-metre bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula where Australian and New Zealand troops landed on 25 April 1915 and kept their main base for the eight months of the campaign. Stone markers, the Ari Burnu Cemetery at its northern end and the Anzac Commemorative Site at North Beach, where the dawn service is held each 25 April, stand along the shore.