TROY & GALLIPOLI · TÜRKİYE
Two sieges, one narrow strait.
The ruins of Homer’s Troy on one shore, the Gallipoli battlefields on the other, and the Dardanelles running between them. Tour reviews, prices and how to see both from Çanakkale.
Only on the Dardanelles
Three places history only made once.
Ancient ruins and old battlefields turn up the world over. The city from the Iliad, the cove where ANZAC landed, and the strait between two continents do not.
The Iliad, in stone
Walk into Homer’s Troy
For three thousand years Troy was taken for a poet’s invention. Then the mound at Hisarlık was dug open to reveal city stacked on city, one of them burned and fallen in roughly the age Homer sang about. You walk the ramparts, the great stone ramp and the excavation trenches where the most famous siege in literature was set.
- 1 Canakkale: Full-Day Troy and Gallipoli Tour
- 2 Full Day Troy & Gallipoli Tour ( From Canakkale )
- 3 Troy and Gallipoli Day Trip from Canakkale
1915, where it happened
Stand at ANZAC Cove
The Gallipoli peninsula is where the 1915 landings, Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair still scar the ridgelines above the Aegean. The opposing trenches sit metres apart in places, the cemeteries are tended to this day, and for Australians, New Zealanders and Turks alike this is sacred ground.
- 1 Canakkale: 6-Hour Gallipoli Tour with Lunch
- 2 Gallipoli Tour from Çanakkale – Lunch Included
- 3 Gallipoli ANZAC Battlefields Tour from Canakkale
Two continents, one day
Cross the Dardanelles
The strait that splits Europe from Asia is barely a mile across. A short ferry from Çanakkale carries you from the Trojan plain to the Gallipoli ridges, over the same water Leander swam for love, Xerxes bridged with boats, and a 1915 fleet tried and failed to force.
- 1 Canakkale: Full-Day Troy and Gallipoli Tour
- 2 Full Day Troy & Gallipoli Tour ( From Canakkale )
- 3 Troy and Gallipoli Day Trip from Canakkale
The one everyone books
Start with the day everyone takes.
More travellers book this than anything else here. If you only lock in one day around the Dardanelles before you go, make it this one.
The classics
The Most Popular Tours Around the Dardanelles
The Gallipoli battlefields, the ruins of Troy, and the combined crossings that take in both. The days most travellers come to Çanakkale for.
Where to begin
The days a Çanakkale trip is built around.
The Gallipoli battlefields, the city of Troy, the combined day across the strait, and the museum that holds the finds. Each one, and the best of it.
The big question
Troy, Gallipoli, or both?
Most visitors have a day or two at Çanakkale and one strait to cross. Here is how the three ways to spend them compare, and who each one is for.
The city from the Iliad
Nine cities, one legendary siege.
For centuries Troy was treated as a poet’s fiction. Then Heinrich Schliemann cut into the mound at Hisarlık in 1871 and found city beneath city, nine of them stacked across three thousand years, one burned and fallen in roughly the era Homer sang about. Today you walk the ramparts, the great ramp and the dig trenches, with the rust-red Museum of Troy and its gold finds a few minutes down the road.
- 1 Canakkale: Full-Day Troy and Gallipoli Tour
- 2 Full Day Troy & Gallipoli Tour ( From Canakkale )
- 3 Troy and Gallipoli Day Trip from Canakkale
The 1915 campaign
The peninsula that became a legend.
In April 1915 Allied troops landed on a thin strip of the Gallipoli peninsula and dug in for eight months against the Ottoman defenders. The campaign failed, yet it forged national stories on every side, ANZAC Day for Australia and New Zealand and the rise of Atatürk for Turkey. The trenches, the cove and the cemeteries sit quietly above the Aegean now; a good guide brings the ridgelines back to life.
- 1 Canakkale: 6-Hour Gallipoli Tour with Lunch
- 2 Gallipoli Tour from Çanakkale – Lunch Included
- 3 Gallipoli ANZAC Battlefields Tour from Canakkale
The strait between
Where Europe and Asia almost touch.
The Dardanelles is barely a mile across at its narrowest, the seam between two continents and two of history’s most famous campaigns. Xerxes bridged it with boats, Leander swam it for love, Byron swam it for the story, and in 1915 a fleet tried and failed to force it. Cross it yourself on the short ferry from Çanakkale.
Browse tours from Çanakkale →Around the strait
Pick a shore.
Gallipoli for the battlefields. Troy for the ruins. Çanakkale for the waterfront base. The museum for the finds, the strait for the crossing, and Istanbul if you’re coming the long way round.
By type
Or choose how to travel.
Full-day if you want both shores. Half-day if it’s just Troy. Private if you want the guide and the car to yourselves, or a tour with lunch laid on along the way.
Plan it
A day across the strait.
Only one day at Çanakkale? Here is how to fit both shores into it, ferry and all.
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