Turkey’s food capital, with the world’s best baklava, Roman mosaics rescued from a flooded city and a bazaar of coppersmiths.
Roman floor mosaics from the villas of Zeugma, including the Gypsy Girl, in one of the world’s great mosaic collections.
The Seljuk castle above the city, with the coppersmiths’ bazaar and the spice market below it.
Gaziantep baklava is made with local pistachios and is unlike anything sold abroad. The famous family shops are near the bazaar.
A museum of the city’s cuisine in a restored mansion, with recipes and utensils.
A seventeenth-century coffee house serving menengiç, a coffee made from wild pistachio.
The restored old quarter of stone mansions, with small museums and cafés.
A day trip to a castle on a cliff above the Euphrates and the half-flooded village of Halfeti, reached by boat.
Beyran soup for breakfast, Ali Nazik for lunch and katmer, a pistachio pastry, for dessert.
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