Open-data travel atlas

Kahve Tabela
Turkey's brown-sign places, on one map

Over 30,000 historic places across 81 cities, on one map. Mark what you've seen, earn badges.

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01 · İstanbul
Hagia Sophia
Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

02 · Antalya
Aspendos
Saffron Blaze · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

03 · Şanlıurfa
Göbekli Tepe
Teomancimit · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

places: 15,825
cities: 81
Verified photos: 7,068
categories: 11

One family, three atlases

Choose your way into Türkiye

Three connected atlases bring the country's heritage, coast, and regional tables into one product family.

Kahve TabelaCultural Heritage AtlasCultural Heritage Atlas. Brown signs, historic places, and the stories held by the road.
Mavi KoyCoastal AtlasCoastal Atlas. Bays, islands, lighthouses, and shipwrecks around Türkiye.
Yöre SofrasıRegional Cuisine AtlasRegional Cuisine Atlas. Local dishes, ingredients, and the regions that shaped them.

Road tools

Drive Mode Build a Route

Time Machine

These places, as they once were

Archive photographs show how places you can visit today once looked. On each place's page they share one timeline with today's photographs, and every one links to its archive record.

Every place with archive photographs

1860-1880 , newest photograph 2020
Hagia Sophia
Photo: Catsimpoolas, Nicholas · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
1879 , newest photograph 2020
Pergamon
Photo: ungenannte/r Fotograf/in · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
1880-1893 , newest photograph 2020
Topkapı Palace
No known restrictions on publication · Library of Congress, Abdul Hamid II Collection
1911 , newest photograph 2022
Harran
Photo: Gertrude Bell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

Historical places to visit in Türkiye

Live atlas

Find the next brown sign

15,825 places, one working map.

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What is a brown sign?

Those road signs you keep passing are Turkey's memory layer.

In short: Turkey's memory of places worth seeing, ready for the road.

Brown signs point to official heritage and tourism sites: ancient cities, tombs, castles, museums, natural landmarks, and places with a real story. Kahve Tabela follows those signs and gathers Turkey's historic and cultural places on one map.

The goal is not just another directory: find what is near you, mark where you have been, progress city by city, and surface the stories hidden off the main road.

0130k+ historic and cultural places
02Map, search, category, and city filters
03Visit tracking, badges, and curated routes
04Turkish and English audio narration, listen on site or on approach in Drive Mode

Records are compiled from open sources such as OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Kahve Tabela is an independent compilation and is not affiliated with these institutions. Sources and licences.

Nearby discovery

Tabela route

Turn this spot into a walk

Pick a time budget. Kahve Tabela links nearby brown signs into an approximate narrated cultural walk.

Collections

Curated heritage routes

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Coastal atlas

Mavi Koy

Bays, islands, lighthouses and shipwrecks continue the atlas beyond the shoreline.

Coastal places: 1,528
Regions: 15

Open the coastal atlas

Kekova on Turkey's coast — KekovaFotoğraf: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Three coordinates

Turkey's food atlas

Yöre Sofrası

4,051 regional dishes across 81 provinces and 12 curated food routes. 1,631 of the dishes carry a registered geographical indication, counting traditional product names and products registered abroad.

Dishes: 4,051
Registered dishes: 1,631
Routes: 12

Open the food map Food routes