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Open-data travel atlas

Kahve TabelaTurkey'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.

places
32,161
cities
81
Verified photos
13,372
categories
11
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Live atlas

Find the next brown sign

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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.

  1. 0130k+ historic and cultural places
  2. 02Map, search, category, and city filters
  3. 03Visit tracking, badges, and curated routes
  4. 04Turkish and English audio narration, listen on site or on approach in Drive Mode

Records are compiled from open sources such as Kültür Envanteri, 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.

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)

Turkey's food atlas

Yöre Sofrası

4,077 regional dishes across 81 provinces, with 1,655 registered geographical indications and 12 curated food routes.

Dishes
4,077
Registered
1,655
Routes
12
Hands reach for bread and shared dishes around a table of regional Turkish food
Regional dishes, shared at one table.