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It has a sandy beach backed by forest where a creek runs out. This is as far as you can go in a standard car.
Çilingoz Nature Park is a nature park located in Çatalca district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
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Korsan Koyu
A small and very isolated beach surrounded by rock cliffs.
formerly Podima
The most interesting of the resorts along this part of the coast. The beach has multi-coloured stones much used as garden mosaics in the city. (Modern quarries nearby still extract these for the Turkish glass industry.) The town has restaurants and accommodation.
A relatively developed beach.
Evcik Plajı
A wide, undeveloped sandy beach backed by cliffs, unexpectedly popular during summer weekends despite its relative remoteness. A narrow track steeply descends to it, but it's best to park your car ahead of the slope to avoid climbing back up in reverse. The ruins of the Byzantine church of St George over the bluff mark the northern end of the Anastasian Wall.
A remarkable Roman double aqueduct above the village of Gümüşpınar. Here water from two catchments converged then flowed by an upper and lower channel all the way to Constantinople. In 2020 treasure hunters got it into their heads that gold was buried beneath, so they blew it up, incurring substantial damage..