Altınova Municipality
Historic lighthouse converted to Türkiye’s first lighthouse life museum
Dilburnu Lighthouse, located in Altınova, Yalova in Türkiye's Marmara region, has become a museum where the story of a lighthouse is told for the first time in Türkiye.
Hersek Lagoon: Summer birds’ incubation spot
Hersek Lagoon in northwestern Turkey, in addition to being home to water birds, hosts summer migratory birds that come to the area for incubation.
The 152-hectare lagoon in Altinova district - known as bird hotel among residents because some species spending the fall and winter months there - sent the winter migrating waterfowls to other countries.
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Secrets of sunken Kibatos Castle unraveled
The history of Kibatos Castle, an important structure of the Byzantine period, which was discovered at a depth of about 3 meters in 2019 in the Marmara Sea, is being revealed through research.
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