Troy

The archeological site of Troy is that of nine cities.. the first from around 3000BC and the last around the first century AD. Troy is situated on the shore of the Dardanelles, and long ago was probably a lot closer than it is now, giving it the perfect strategic position to control shipping through the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus to the Black Sea.
Of course the legends of Troy abound, and most will know of it from the Homerian tales in the Iliad (or the godawful Brad Pitt movie!). Anyway the Tojan horse from the movie is at Canakkele, and the archeological ruins are at Troy. It is an amazing feeling to stand on the hilltop in Troy and look out over the fields on which the Trojan Wars were fought...