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Exciting openings include writer Orhan Pamuk's whimsical Museum of Innocence, SALT
cultural centres and the Galata Mevlevi Museum, the dervish museum in Galata's renov-
ated 15th-century tekke (dervish lodge).

7 TROY MUSEUM
A national archaeological and history museum is set to open near Troy in 2015, giving an-
other reason to visit the site from nearby Çanakkale or the Gallipoli Peninsula.

8 EVLIYA ÇELEBI WAY
Turkey's first long-distance walking and riding route follows the Ottoman traveller
through Western Anatolia. Culture Routes in Turkey is developing several other trails.

9 PERA PALACE HOTEL
A US$23 million renovation has improved the famous İstanbul hotel's opulent late-Otto-
man interiors, and its Golden Horn views remain. (

212-377 4000; www.perapalace.com ;

Meşrutiyet Caddesi 52, Tepebaşı; r €205-325, ste €350-2600; Karaköy, then funicular to

Tünel)

10 ANCIENT PATARA
Patara's bouleuterion (council chamber) reopened in 2012 following a " 8.5 million recon-
struction. It was the centre of the Lycian League, often cited as history's first proto-demo-
cratic union. ( Click here )

11 CAVE CUISINE
Join Cappadocia's slow-food revolution, based around traditional village dishes, at
Göreme's recent openings Köy Evi and Topdeck Cave Restaurant. ( Click here a nd Click
here )