Aydin Attractions | 25 Most Beautiful Places | Center and Surroundings

The entrance door of Cihanoğlu Mosque is bordered with marble jambs.. There is an inscription of construction dated 1756 on this door: Whoever built this mosque, let its building be in good condition, May his Divine grace be its chief Mustafa in the apocalypse.. Sahibül hayrat velhasenat el pilgrimage Abdülaziz Efendi 1170.

The restoration of the mosque was completed in 2010 and it gained a more beautiful appearance.

• The Cihanoğlu Mosque location is here.

Nasuh Pasha Complex

We continue to the places to visit in the center of Aydın with the Nasuh Pasha Complex. The complex, located in Köprülü Neighborhood, consists of baths, madrasahs, masjids and inns.. Stone, brick and spolia materials were used in the construction of the buildings..

There is a masjid-classroom in the northeast corner.. The bath consists of dressing room, warm room, temperature and water tank sections.. Its inn is in the group of inner-city and courtyard inns of the Ottoman Period and is also known as Zincirli Han.. It is known from the inscription above the entrance of the inn that the complex was built by Nasuh Pasha in 1708.

• The location of the Nasuh Pasha Complex here.

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• Phone: (0256) 215 28 88

Gumrukonu Hamami

Gumrukonu Hamami was built as a double bath for men and women.. The bath has a masonry using bricks from place to place among the rubble stone.. In the women’s section, there is a dressing room, a warm room and a warm place.. In the men’s section, there are dressing, warm and hot sections..

The Turkish bath, based on the plan. 16th century. YY. Dating into a time period up to the end.

• Gümrükönü Hamam location here.

Ramazan Pasha Mosque

Ramadan Pasha Mosque has gone through two phases of construction. The first building does not have an inscription, but according to the foundation charter dated 1595, it is known that the mosque was built by Ramazan Pasha.

The mosque was partially damaged in a fire, and was completely destroyed in the 1899 earthquake.. The current mosque was built in 1901 by Sökeli Hacı Halim Pasha.. During the War of Independence, a resistance meeting was held in this mosque on May 22, 1919.

• The location of Ramazan Pasha Mosque is here.

Bey Mosque

Aydin Efeler is one of the places to visit one is Bey Mosque. The mosque was built in 1683 by Süleyman Bey, the grandson of Üveys Paşazade Mehmet Bey and the son of Algerian Governor Mustafa Pasha.. It is believed that the construction of the historical mosque, also known as Süleyman Bey Mosque, was done by one of Mimar Sinan’s journeymen.. However, this restoration was far from its original state.. The minaret, which was destroyed during the Greek occupation, was repaired together with the mosque in 1954-1956 and brought back to its original state.

• The Bey Mosque location is here.

Sergeant Bridge

Sergeant Bridge; It is located within the borders of Cuma Mahallesi, Efeler District of Aydın. The bridge was built with cut stone material. Consisting of two pointed arches, the arch of the bridge on the left has an ox or bull head relief on the keystone.

• The Sergeant Bridge location is here.

Tales Mathematics Museum

The center of our list of places to visit in Aydın the last point of the section Tales Museum of Mathematics. With the help of the imagination of the museum of mathematics, primary education 3. It appeals to every class and above. In the museum, they carried mathematics from abstract to concrete with stations suitable for all levels from primary school curriculum to high-level mathematics. , From the bridge of Mimar Sinan to perspective, from Caesar Cipher, materials such as various logical games are also available. Museum sightseeing tours take place with guided tours with expert mathematics instructors.

• Tales Mathematics Museum entry fee: 25 TL. Museum card not valid here.
• The Tales Mathematics Museum location is here.
• Phone: 0555 189 89 46

Places To Visit Around Aydın

Kusadasi

Kusadasi Obviously, apart from Aydin places to visit, it deserves a separate holiday and a separate guide.. One of Turkey’s leading tourism destinations with its historical ruins, beautiful beaches and deep blue sea.. If you want to include it in your Aydın trip, you can also visit it daily.. I’m listing the main sights below.

Places to Visit in Kusadasi

• Guvercinada Castle
• Dilek Peninsula
• Öküz Mehmet Pasha Caravanserai
• Kale İçi Mosque
• Women’s Beach
• Davutlar
• Kursunlu Monastery
• Roman Bath
• Hand Sculpture
• Necati Korkmaz Micro Miniature Museum
• Oleatrium Olive and Olive Oil History Museum
• KUAKMER – F. Private Arabul Cultural Center and City Museum

<h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="dilek-peninsula-milli" -park"Dilek Peninsula National Park/h4 pstrongWe came to strongDilek Peninsula National Park/strong, which tops the list of places to visit in Aydın Kuşadası/strong. The national park has an area of ​​27,675 hectares.. 9 BC. Panionion, the holy gathering center of the Ionian city in the century, the ancient city of Thebes, Ayayorgi Monastery, the historical Doğanbey Village (Domatia), Karine, Hagios Antonios Monastery and Zeus Cave are also within the borders of the national park./p pNational Park,  International Wetlands It is protected under the Convention for the Protection of Wildlife and Habitats in Europe (Bern), the Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio) and the Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution (Barcelona)./p pIn the National Park 804 plant species identified. Six of these plants are only seen here in the world. It also hosts 18 plant species found only in Turkey in the world.. The most vibrant and healthy examples of almost all plant species of the Mediterranean scrub vegetation are located on the peninsula./p pDilek Peninsula is also home to 28 kinds of mammals, 42 kinds of reptiles and many sea creatures.. In addition, the peninsula is the last point where the endangered Anatolian leopard lives in the west./p pstrongPlaces to visit in Aydın/strong, the strongKursunlu Monastery/strong is also located within the borders of the Dilek Peninsula.. Kurşunlu Monastery is a collection of Byzantine structures.. Clergy fleeing oppression built churches and monasteries in these areas where they could hide and practice their religion.. The monastery, which the Greeks called "Panagia Kursunniatissa", is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.. The name Kurşunlu, on the other hand, probably comes from the lead covering the structures.. 19 of the monastery. It is believed that it was used until the 19th century./p ulliDilek Peninsula National Park entrance feestrong per person 7 TL. Car is 21 TL./strong/liliDilek Peninsula National Park location is stronghere./strong/lilistrongPhone:/strong (0256) 646 10 79/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="zeus-cave"Cave of Zeus/h4 pstrongNatural places to visit in Aydın/strong is undoubtedly one of the first places that comes to mind when it comes to strong Zeus Cave/strong. Be sure to add this cave, which was formed as a result of erosion of calcareous rocks by underground waters, to your route.. After parking your vehicle, you reach the cave by walking a little and descending a small path./p pThe puddle formed in the cave is not very wide in terms of area, but some places seem quite deep.. The cave is approximately 60 meters long, 20 meters wide and approximately 10 meters deep.. Summer-winter temperature 5 degrees. You can cool off by swimming in this cool cave in the summer heat./p pIn mythology, it is believed that the goddess of beauty Aphrodite became beautiful by swimming in the Cave of Zeus.. In addition, it is said that the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, bathed in the water of this cave during her journey from Samos to Ephesus./p pstrong MYTH OF AYDIN ​​ZEUS CAVE:/strong According to the legend, Zeus, the god of sky, was his brother. When the god of the sea angered Poseidon, he took refuge in this cave to wait for the wrath of Poseidon, who raised his triple pitchfork and turned the sea upside down, to calm down.. Because of this story, it was named the Cave of Zeus./p ulliThe entrance to the Cave of Zeus is strongfree./strong/liliThe location of the Cave of Zeus is stronghere./strong. /li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="priene-ancient-city"Priene Ancient City /h4 pstrongPlaces to visit in Aydın Söke/strong strongPriene Ancient City/strong is our next stop. The city of Priene was established at the foot of Samsun (Mykale) Mountain. When viewed from the city's location, a wide and flat plain can be seen.. In the past, where this plain was, there was a sea.. Due to the alluviums carried by the meander, the city is now located within kilometers of land.. 2. There is no definite information about the first foundation of the city, which dates back to the first millennium BC.. The structures in Priene, which have survived to the present day as highly preserved; Temple of Athena, Theatre, Agora, Temple of Zeus Olympos, Bouleuterion, 2 Gymnasium and Demeter sanctuary./p ulliPriene Ancient City entrance fee strong12.5 TL/strong. You can visit the museum for free with your card./liliPriene Ancient City location is stronghere./strong/lilistrongPhone:/strong 02565471165/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="milet-oren-place-and-museum"Milet Ruins and Museum/h4 pstrongOne of the places to visit around Aydın/strong is another important point strongMilet Ruins/strong. When the Archaic Period Acropolis was abandoned after the Persian invasion in 494 BC, the Hellenistic City began to take shape around Aslanlı Harbor and the theater.. In the Roman period, the size and shape of the Hellenistic period city was preserved, but new buildings were added.. Faustina Bath, Humei Tepe Bath, theatre, port monument, harbor gate, Capito Bath, gymnasium, South Agora gate, west agora.stadium, warehouse structures are important structures dating to the Roman Period./p pThe city is located on the Büyük Menderes River. It lost its feature of being an important port city when it started to fill with alluviums it carried.. Miletos turned into a Bishopric from AD 5378 and the city got smaller and smaller and was limited to the theater and the castle.. The city, which was named Palatia in the Byzantine Period,13. In the 19th century, it was dominated by the Turks./p pMiletos has been the capital of philosophy, science and art in history.. Anaximenes of Miletos tried to explain existence, Anaximandros carved the universal laws that are not based on gods on stones, Hekataios showed superiority in geography and wrote his name in history as the first person to draw the world map.. Thales, considered the father of philosophy, learned to calculate solar eclipses after his visit to Egypt./p pThe Miletus museum is located in the same area as the ancient city.. It will be much more effective to visit the museum first and then the city./p ulliMilet Ruins strongentry fee is 25 TL/strong. (You can also visit the Miletus Museum with the same ticket.) strongMuseum card is valid here./strong/liliMilet Ruins location is stronghere./strong/lili strongPhone: /strong02568755206/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="didim" Didim/h4 pA quiet, peaceful holiday region away from the noise Didim. If you come in the summer, you can swim a lot, join the boat tour and do water sports.. Blue and green mixed together in Didim. There is no need for an umbrella on some beaches, the trees provide this service to you /p pThis place deserves a separate guide just like Kuşadası. Therefore, let me briefly list the places you can visit in Didim.. Let me make a detailed Didim article at the first opportunity.. /p pstrongPlaces To Visit Didim/strong/p ulliDidim Akbük/liliSapli Island/liliDidyma Ancient City and Temple of Apollo/liliAltinkum Beach/liliManastır Bay/liliParadise Bay/liliBafa Lake Nature Park/liliTavşanburnu Nature Park /li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="apollon-tapinagi"Temple of Apollo/h4 Of course, strongApollo Temple/strong is at the top of the list of places to visit in pstrongAydin Didim/strong. Apollo, which is among the best preserved temples of antiquity, was completely unearthed during the excavations carried out between 1906-1913.. It is the third largest temple in the world./p pAt that time, three sisters called Görgos turned everyone and everything they looked at to stone.. The faces of these sisters are scary and their hair is depicted as snakes.. Medusa, the most well-known and mortal among them. The Greeks hid their belongings in the temple to protect them from these three sisters.. In other words, Didyma is not an ancient city, but a sacred place.. and it was a center of prophecy./p pThose who want to learn about their future reach this prophecy center by traveling for days.. At that time, divination was a resource used by all people, from kings to poor peasants. Statesmen who would go to war, those who were sick would come to the Temple of Apollo to learn what would happen.. Of course, being able to learn these prophecies and participating in the rituals held in the temple was also subject to a fee.. /p pstrongAPOLLO TEMPLE STORY/strong: One day, God Apollo met a shepherd named Brankhos in Didim region.. Apollo taught this shepherd the secrets of wisdom. The shepherd Brankhos built the first temple in the name of Apollo, next to the laurel forest and water source located in the place of the Temple of Apollo today.. In time, the descendants of Brankhos were called "Brankhids" and they were the directors of the temple for a long time./p ulliThe entrance fee to the Temple of Apollo is strong30 TL./strong You can visit the museum free of charge with your card./li liThe location of the Temple of Apollostrong is here./strong/lilistrongPhone: /strong02568755206/li/ul h4 class="has-text- align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="bafa-golu"Bafa Lake/h4 pWe are going to Bafa Lake, the largest lake in the Aegean region, now. Lake Bafa was actually a gulf in the Aegean Sea.. Over time, it was separated from the sea by the alluvium carried by the Büyük Menderes and remained as a freshwater lake.. /p pstrongBafa Lake/strong creates a border between Aydın and Muğla. One side of the lake is in Aydın and the other side is in Milas district of Muğla.. This side of Lake Bafa, which is in the strongPlaces to visit in Aydın Söke/strong, is quite beautiful for bird watchers.. 250 kinds of birds, including swans and flamingos, visit this lake./p pMuğla Milas side of the lake is much richer in terms of places to visit.. There are many historical ruins that you can see here, such as the Ancient City of Herakleia, the Yediler Monastery, the Necropolis rock tombs.. It is not possible to briefly describe it here.. Come and read my article stronghttps://bujuyollarda.com/milas-travel-yerler//strong./p ulliBafa Lake location is stronghere./strong /li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="nysa-ancient-city"Nysa Ancient City/li/ul h4 pstrongOne of the places to visit around Aydın/strong is strongNysa Ancient City/strong. Nysa 3 BC. century is dated. Ancient historian 'Stephanus' Seleukos' son I. He mentioned that he had the city founded by Antiokhos Soter on behalf of his wife.. Famous geographer Strabo was educated in Nysa, one of the most important education centers of the period./p pGymnasion is located in the west of the city.. To the north is the library, and to the north of the library is the theater, which has a special importance with its reliefs seen on the stage building. In the east, the agora, bouleuterion and bath are among the structures to be seen./p pThe ancient city of Nysa is a city in nature.. I especially recommend that you make your trip coincide with the spring months.. Everywhere is green, daisies, tulips, families having picnics, nature has affected me as much as its history.. The theater has survived quite well, the friezes on the back of the stage are copies, the originals are in the Aydın Archeology Museum.. on display on the floor. Another surviving building in the city is the library.. It is the best preserved ancient library of Anatolia after the Ephesus Celsus library./p ulliNysa Ancient City entrance fee is strong12.5 TL./strong You can visit the museum free of charge with your card./li liNysa Ancient City location stronghere./strong/lilistrongPhone:/strong 02562252259/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align -center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="arpaz-kalesi"Arpaz Castle/h4 pArpaz Castle strongAydin Nazilli/strong is almost a place to visit It surprises people with its castle-like appearance.. Located in Esenköy, Nazilli, the castle was built on the outskirts of Harpasa Castle, a Carian city.. The castle and mansion were built by the masters brought by Arpazlı Hacı Hasan Bey from Rhodes during the reign of Mahmut II. warehouse, stables and outbuildings. Unfortunately, this magnificent mansion and tower has been abandoned to its fate.. Although an attempt was made for its restoration a few years ago, the necessary finance for the restoration of the structures could not be found.. I hope we can claim this history and give it the necessary value./p ulliArpaz Castle location is stronghere./strong/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align -center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="yoruk-ali-efe-museum"Yörük Ali Efe Museum/h4 pstrongPlaces to visit in Aydın Yenipazar/strong Yörük Ali Efe Museum, one of the must-visit. /p pNational Hero Yörük Ali Efestrong'/strong's house in Yenipazar district center, where he lived until his death from Izmir, was destroyed in a fire in the 1980s.. In 1995, the heirs of Yörük Ali Efe donated the house to the Ministry of Culture on the condition that the house be turned into a museum.. The house was made ready for display with its original restoration./p pThe personal belongings of Yörük Ali Efe were also donated to the museum by his heirs.. Yörük Ali Efe's grave in Muslukuyu Cemetery was moved to its place in the museum garden with the decision of the Council of Ministers and was opened to visitors on June 8, 2001 as a unit affiliated to the strong Yörük Ali House Museum/strong Aydın Museum Directorate./strong. p ulliThe entrance to the Yörük Ali Efe Museum is strongfree./strong/liliThe location of the Yörük Ali Efe Museum is stronghere./strong/lili Phone: (0256) 361 45 41/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="nazilli-ethnography- museum"Nazilli Ethnography Museum/h4 pThe building that functions as strongNazilli Ethnography Museum/strong today is the historical Ankara Palas Hotel, built in 1923-1930 as a hotel. Adapted from the novel by Yusuf Atılgan, the hotel where the Anayurt Oteli was filmed, the hotel became known as the Homeland Hotel after the movie./p pAnkara Palas Hotel was the property of Blacksmith Mehmet Efe, who was active in the region during the War of Independence, and for this reason, it was popularly known as “Blacksmith Mehmet Efendi”. Also known as "Hotel". The hotel was used as a tax office, police station and residence for a while; In 1952, it was put into service as a hotel under the name of Ankara Palas Hotel.. After its restoration in 2010, it became the Ethnography Museum./p pGround and 1. All the items exhibited on the first floor were compiled from the chests and houses of the people of Nazilli./p ulliThe entrance to the Nazilli Ethnography Museum is strongfree./strong/liliNazilli Ethnography Museum location strong here./strong/lilistrongPhone:/strong (0256) 312 92 53/li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has- I will tell you about a cave that you can add to your list of places to visit in Aydın Karacasu. strongYırtlanini Cave/strong It is located at the borders of the Karacasu district of Aydın, in the area of ​​the Hyena hole, in the Çamarası neighborhood 13,5 km from the district center./p pThere are stalactites and stalagmites in the cave, which has biological characteristics with its natural formations.. The horizontal and dry Hydranini Cave is 348 meters long.. After the mouth, where you have to crawl a distance of 4 meters, the cave suddenly becomes a large gallery.. Different species of insects and sponges were found inside the cave, which has a very high humidity outside./p pI hope that Hyena Cave, which is among the natural places to visit in Aydın, will be brought to tourism as soon as possible./p ulli Its cave location is here./li/ul h4 class="has-text-align-center has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background" id="karacasu-ethnography-museum"Karacasu Ethnography Museum/h4 pA museum displaying works giving information about the recent socio-cultural history of Aydın Karacasu district, which is among the oldest settlements of Turkish Culture, and the whole region strongKaracasu Ethnography Museum/strong. /p pThe venue, which was opened in 2007 and owned by Karacasu Municipality, has been allocated for the use of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.. In the museum, which is located in an indoor area of ​​500 square meters, some artifacts from the Karacasu region are also exhibited, apart from ethnographic artifacts compiled from different museums.. The museum also has displays giving information about the traditional crafts of the region.br/p ulliThe entrance to Karacasu Ethnography Museum is strongfree./strong/liliKaracasu Ethnography Museum location here.

Aphrodisias Ruins

Aphrodisias Ancient City at the top of the list of places to visit in Aydın /strong> Located in Aydın’s Karacasu district. The city, named after the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, was one of our most curious. The museum welcomes you at the entrance, and all the unbelievably beautiful artifacts from the ruins are exhibited here.. The richest collection of the museum consists of the sculptures and reliefs of the Aphrodisias Sculpture School, which lasted from the Late Hellenistic period to the Early Byzantine period, and sarcophagi.. Do not neglect to visit the museum.

The last point of our list of places to visit in Aydın Arabapisti Canyon. Arapapıştı Canyon, which is formed in the region where Akçay, one of the branches of the Büyük Menderes River, flows through a deep, steep and narrow valley to the Kemer Dam in Bozdoğan district of Aydın, is also known as “İncegiz Canyon” in the region..