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Cape Baba (Turkish: Baba Burun), is the western most point of Anatolian part of Turkey. Babakale is the furthest western most point on Turkey's Asian mainland. When you enter from the north you see Babakale's long beach. The village is located on a high rocky terrain, it covered with olive and plane trees. The freshly restored castle looks as if it is new when and the narrow streets running past old village houses lead to the Bababurnu Lighthouse, a site known to all seafarers in the region.
The olive and plane trees are peaceful. The castle was built in 1723 and was the last fortress erected by the Ottomans and characteristic of that period. Among the historic sites that survived to our day are the castle, the public fountain and the mosque. On the border between the Marmara and the Aegean regions of Turkey the sunset is of extreme beauty. This end point of the mainland that once was a base of the Ottoman navies and frequented by pirates, has a hill smothered in the scent of thyme

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