![]() ![]() The drive is 3.5 hours from Istanbul, and 2.5 hours from Ankara, so a fascinating stop-off for anyone making the journey between the two major cities. Located just outside of the town of Mudurnu, visitors can drive right up to the settlement, as a main road runs along the side of it. A Future Tourist Haven?įancy visiting this crazy town before it gets overrun by tourists (or bulldozed…)? Well, here’s what we know: However, with the instability caused by the pandemic, this plan may have been pushed back even more. Rules on foreign access to citizenship have been relaxed, in the hopes that overseas investors and businessmen will be more likely to invest in the properties. The government still hope that there is a future for the development, but that remains to be seen. ![]() Unfortunately, when the project fell apart, most of these sales were cancelled and today, the whole town is deathly still – devoid of any residents. Those castles that did sell, were offered at a price tag of $500,000. In the end, only 583 were completed and very few actually sold. $200 million was put into the project, with the expectation of building 732 homes. This put a complete stop on all development work and the town still stands at this impasse today, with hundreds of complete and half-completed buildings stretching out across the Anatolian hillside. By 2018, the construction company was officially declared bankrupt. A post shared by Alexandre Humbert due to the town’s bad image and framed by Turkey’s ongoing financial crisis, many of the key investors pulled out.
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