Eskişehir Tour

Day trip every weekend, departing from Bursa.

Vehicle departure and departure times

06:30 Görükle

06:40 Küçük Sanayi

06:40 Beşevler Metro

06:40 FSM Metro

06:40 Nilüfer Metro

06:45 Acemler Metro

06:50 Merinos

07:00 Kent Meydanı

Tour Program;

After picking up our guests from the departure points, we arrive in Eskişehir via Bursa and İnegöl. Our first stop is the historic Odunpazarı Houses from the Ottoman period. We stroll through the streets of Odunpazarı, famous for its bay-windowed houses reflecting Ottoman architecture, which is considered the city's first settlement area, and take photos. Then we take a shopping break at Atlıhan Handicrafts Bazaar, which was formerly used as an inn and now serves as a bazaar, to buy products made from meerschaum unique to Eskişehir. After that, we begin touring the Kurşunlu Complex, which was built in 1525 and consists of 5 sections. After seeing the Meerschaum Museum, Handicrafts Center, and Hot Glass workshop within the complex, we spend impressive moments at the “Yılmaz Büyükerşen Wax Museum,” Turkey’s first example of the “Madame Tussauds” Museum, which exists in many countries around the world. Then we see the Devrim Car, Turkey’s first and only domestically produced automobile.

We take a gondola tour on the Porsuk Stream. After the gondola tour, we head to Kent Park, which includes Eskişehir’s beach. At the end of our walk there, for lunch we taste çiğ börek and tatar soup, sorpa. After lunch, we arrive at Sazova, which is among Turkey’s best parks. During the free time given at Sazova Science, Culture and Art Park, you can visit the Fairy Tale Castle, Science Experiment Center, Sabancı Space House, Pirate Ship, and Eti Underwater World.

About Eskişehir;

Eskişehir is a province of Turkey and the twenty-fifth most populous city. It became a Metropolitan Municipality with the law enacted in 1993. According to TÜİK statistics for 2019, its population is 887,475. With the Porsuk Stream passing through its center, the city has the appearance of a student city because it contains Osmangazi University, Eskişehir Technical University, and Anadolu University.

It is famous for met halva, Nuga halva, poppy-seed pastry, Kalabak water, çibörek, and meerschaum. In addition, balaban kebab also has an important place in Eskişehir cuisine. Since workable meerschaum is mined only in Eskişehir in Turkey, it is known as Eskişehir stone. Akbaş, a shepherd dog bred in Eskişehir and around Sivrihisar in Turkey, is also one of the city's important values. It is a city that is developed in culture and arts with its arts institutions and facilities. There are two symphony orchestras within Anadolu University and the metropolitan municipality. In addition, with the International Eskişehir Festival held every year, exhibitions and performances are held in the city in the fields of music, theater, painting, and cinema. Eskişehir has continued its existence under different civilizations until today. Some of the civilizations established on it are Phrygia, Byzantium, the Anatolian Seljuks, and the Ottoman Empire.

SAZOVA SCIENCE, ART and CULTURE PARK

With an area of approximately 400 thousand square meters, the park is Eskişehir’s largest park. Within the park area there is a large pond where various water sports can also be practiced, restaurants, an open-air concert area for 1200 people, an amphitheater, a museum ship in full scale, play groups made up of fairy tale characters, a playground where children can do various water-related activities, a playground for disabled children, the Science Experiment Center next to which Turkey’s largest space house is also located, the Fairy Tale World, which is a first in Turkey, and the Japanese Garden created in cooperation with the Metropolitan Municipality and the Embassy of Japan in Turkey within the scope of the 2010 Turkey-Japan Year events. Special sightseeing trains operate within the park area. Inside the Metropolitan Municipality Science, Art and Culture Park there is also a large Underwater World, and zoo work is also ongoing.

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