Eskişehir
Inside the Kurşunlu Külliyesi Complex, this small gallery displays items made from meerschaum stone, which is mined locally. Meerschaum pipes are famous…
Must-see attractions in Western Anatolia
Bursa
With its fine lawns and flower beds, tea gardens, playgrounds and a lake where you can hire pedal boats, leafy Kültür Parkı is a good place for travelling…
Eskişehir
The heart of the collection here is Eskişehir's Museum of Contemporary Glass Art, a unique display donated by about 70 Turkish and foreign artists. The…
Bursa
This lively museum, very popular with local families, chronicles Bursa's history from the earliest sultans, their military campaigns and their ornate…
Lake District
The very ruinous remnants of Adada, with its toppled masonry strewn across overgrown meadows and into the surrounding forest, has a still visible agora…
Bursa
This twin-domed mosque (1395), also referred to as just Beyazıt Cami, was built by Mehmed I Çelebi's father, Sultan Beyazıt I. It houses the tombs of…
Lake District
Eğirdir's last remaining Orthodox church is on Yeşilada, near İskele Park. Thirteen other churches were torn down after the Greek community departed in…
Western Anatolia
The remains of the minor Saray Gate, part of the fortified city walls, are reached down a winding country lane between the town and the olive groves…
Pamukkale
Ak Han (c 1251) is a well-preserved Seljuk caravanserai with a beautifully carved gateway. You'll find it en route to the cave Kaklık Mağarası from…
Lake District
Roughly 30km southeast of Eğirdir, and about 1km north of Aksu by a Roman bridge, you'll find the entrance to the kilometre-long Zından Mağarası, which…
Lake District
In 1281 Hamidoğulları emir Felekeddin Dündar Bey turned this grand stone structure in the centre – then a 67-year-old Seljuk caravanserai – into a medrese…
Bursa
The bulky 15th-century Muradiye Medresesi is part of the Muradiye Complex. During the mid-20th century the building was used as a medical centre for…
Western Anatolia
The minaret of the Fatih Cami soars above the squat red-brick structure that was originally built as the Hagios Stephanos-Hinolakkos Church in the 8th…
Bursa
Sultan Murat I (r 1359–89), most famous for the Battle of Kosovo that claimed his life, is interred in this huge sarcophagus opposite the Hudavendigar…
Western Anatolia
A 10-minute walk northwest of the main square, Zafer Meydanı, this heritage street of renovated Ottoman houses includes restaurants, cafes and a museum…
Sultan Murat II (Muradiye) Cami
Bursa
The Sultan Murat II (Muradiye) Cami (1426) imitates the painted decorations of Yeşil Cami, another of Bursa's great Ottoman mosques, and features an…
Bursa
Atatürk House (1895) commemorates the great leader in a pine-scented garden setting. The restored structure contains mostly original furnishings from when…
Pamukkale
The twin-towered ruins of the Arch of Domitian are at the northern end of Hierapolis. Just before them is the surprisingly large latrine building, with…
Lake District
Pebbly Altınkum Beach is 3.5km northwest of central Eğirdir. There's a small admission fee. It's not a particularly pretty beach. In high summer, dolmuşes…
Bursa
This is the only surviving clock tower of a group of four that once crowned Bursa's old citadel district. The towers were also used as the city's fire…
Western Anatolia
The toppled ruins of a 15,000-seat Roman theatre are concealed down Tiyatro Sokak. From here you can continue walking to the southwestern Saray Gate and…
Western Anatolia
Located amid the restored Ottoman houses of Germiyan Sokak, 10 minutes northwest of the main square, Kütahya's City Museum presents a good overview of the…
Sultan Murat II (Muradiye) Hamamı
Bursa
The 15th-century Sultan Murat II Hamamı was once where medrese (seminary) students bathed. It is now a government building. It's part of the Muradiye…
Bursa
Hacı Sevinç Cami is located amid the winding and labyrinthine streets of Bursa's Tahtakale district, just south of Atatürk Caddesi, and is part of Bursa's…
Eskişehir
This former inn opened in 1890, and Atatürk stayed here in 1920 during his military campaigning. The rooms have been restored and host exhibits on Atatürk…
Bursa
Stately theatre named after Ahmet Vefik Pasa (1823–1891), a Greek-Ottoman statesman who was briefly (for four months in 1878) the Grand Vizier of the…
Bursa
This museum's small collection ranges from beautiful Roman pottery and figurines to stone tools and artefacts dating back to the Paleolithic era.
Lake District
The massive walls of the ruined castle of Akrotiri (the Byzantine name for Eğirdir) allegedly dates back to 5th-century BC Lydian king Croesus.
Western Anatolia
Built in 1410, Kütahya's grand mosque has chunky marble pillars and intricate Arabic calligraphy decoration bordering its arches and domes.
Lake District
Sandy Belediye Beach is at Yazla, less than 1km from Eǧirdir centre on the Isparta road. There are changing cabins and simple restaurants.
Pamukkale
This large latrine building at Hierapolis has two floor channels, for sewage and for fresh water.
Western Anatolia
The restored Şeyh Kutbettin Cami (1492) lies across the road to the south of the İznik Museum.
Pamukkale
The first monument you come to if you enter Hierapolis at the south gate is this 5th-century travertine block and marble gate.
Pamukkale
Hierapolis' scant Byzantine church ruins are a bit of a jumble and difficult to decipher. They're behind the museum.
Bursa
This restored 17th-century house has a beautiful exterior and a few Ottoman dioramas inside.
Western Anatolia
Dating from 1332, the centrally located Hacı Özbek Cami is one of İznik's oldest mosques.
Bursa
The stately Eski Belediye stands between Atatürk Caddesi and Bursa's flower markets.
