Assos Dedeoglu Hotel Çanakkale  

Looking for a Province of Çanakkale hotel where you can spend a relaxing holiday on the Aegean coast? The Assos Dedeoglu Hotel is a pleasant Marmara, Turkey hotel in the Ayvacık district, near the village of Assos on the northern coast of the Gulf of Edremit. A well-equipped hotel with 57 rooms, the Assos Dedeoglu Hotel has an outdoor swimming pool, sunbathing terrace, and barbecue area in the garden. There’s an outdoor playground for kids, plus tennis courts and facilities for playing football, volleyball, and basketball. You can dine indoors or outdoors at the restaurant, have a drink at the fireplace bar, or just grab a snack from the mini market or the snack bar. The hotel is located on the Gulf of Edremit (also called Edremit Bay), 12.7 km/7.9 miles east of the village of Assos (sometimes called Behramkale or Behram). The village was the home of a philosophy academy run by the philosophers Aristotales and Hermaios in ancient times, and visitors can still attend philosophy classes there each summer. Among the other Assos attractions are the Old Town with its traditional Mediterranean architecture, good swimming beaches, a 6th century B.C. temple to Athena, and a bridge that dates back to the Ottoman era. To the west is the well-preserved 18th-century citadel of Babakale, and to the east is Mount Ida, some of which is enclosed in Kaz Dağı National Park (Kazdağı Milli Parkı). To the north are the archaeological site of the ancient city of Troy (Truva or Troya in Turkish) and the city of Çanakkale.