Caiques on spring flowers at coast of Troas to the South of Mount Ida at Adramyttian Gulf, modern Aegean holiday town of Akcay today. Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Today it is the name of an archaeological site, the traditional location of Homeric Troy, Turkish Truva, in Hisarlık (39°58′N 26°13′E) in Anatolia, close to the seacoast in what is now Çanakkale province in northwest Turkey, southwest of the Dardanelles under Mount Ida.
Travel notes and photos of archaeological tours in ancient Anatolia, Turkey.