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Things to do in Bursa
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Sightlore has 30 places to explore in Bursa, and 30 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Bursa's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Orhan Gazi Mosque
The Orhan Gazi Mosque is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey. It is named after the Ottoman ruler Orhan, who founded the mosque in 1339–40 as part of a larger charitable complex.
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Bursa Green Mosque
The Green Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Mehmed I, is a part of a larger complex (külliye) in eastern Bursa, Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman Turks before Constantinople was captured in 1453. The complex consists of a mosque, a mausoleum known as the Green Tomb,…
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Irgandı Bridge
Irgandı Bridge is a historical bridge in Bursa, Turkey. The bridge is over Gökdere, a tributary of Nilüfer River. It is between Osmangazi (northwest) and Yıldırım (southeast), two second level municipalities of Greater Bursa.
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Bursa Grand Mosque
The Grand Mosque of Bursa is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey.
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Cumalıkızık Village
Cumalıkızık is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yıldırım, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 707 (2022). It is 10 kilometers east of the city of Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ.
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Yeşil Türbe
The Green Tomb is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey.
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Koza Han
The Koza Han is a historic caravanserai (han) in Bursa, Turkey. It is located in the heart of the city's historic market district.
Discovery routes in Bursa
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Bursa, First Capital
In UNESCO-listed Bursa: the Great Mosque, the Koza Han silk bazaar, Orhan Gazi Mosque, Irgandı Bridge, the Green Mosque and Green Tomb; last stop Cumalıkızık village.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Koza Han
The Koza Han is a historic caravanserai (han) in Bursa, Turkey. It is located in the heart of the city's historic market district.
Irgandı Bridge
Irgandı Bridge is a historical bridge in Bursa, Turkey. The bridge is over Gökdere, a tributary of Nilüfer River. It is between Osmangazi (northwest) and Yıldırım (southeast), two second level municipalities of Greater Bursa.
Yeşil Türbe
The Green Tomb is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey.
Cumalıkızık Village
Cumalıkızık is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Yıldırım, Bursa Province in Turkey. Its population is 707 (2022). It is 10 kilometers east of the city of Bursa, at the foot of Mount Uludağ.
Abdal Bridge
The Abdal Bridge is a stone arch bridge in Bursa, Turkey. It was constructed in 1669 to carry the road to Mudanya across the Nilüfer River. Today it connects the Acemler and Hürriyet quarters of Bursa.
Apollonia ad Rhyndacum
Apollonia or Apollonia-on-the-Rhyndacus was an ancient town opposite the delta of the Rhyndacus river in northwestern Anatolia and corresponds today to the town of Gölyazı.
Muradiye Complex
The Muradiye Complex or the Complex of Sultan Murad II, the Ottoman sultan, is located in Bursa, Turkey. It is part of the historic UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Nicaea
Nicaea, also known as Nikaia or Nice ( or), was an ancient Greek city in the northwestern Anatolian region of Bithynia.
Museums
Bursa Archaeological Museum
Bursa Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in Bursa, Turkey. It exhibits various archaeological artifacts that originated from the Middle Miocene Period up to the end of the Byzantine Era that were found in and around Bursa.
Bursa Atatürk Museum
Bursa Atatürk Museum is a historic house museum in Bursa, Turkey. The museum is at at Çekirge quarter of Osmangazi district in Bursa Province. The museum is a three-storey house.
Bursa Museum of Forestry
Bursa Forestry Museum is a museum in Bursa, northwestern Turkey dedicated to forestry. Opened in 1989, it is housed in a historic Ottoman era mansion. Its collection size is nearly 1,000 items.
Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages
The Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages is a private transport museum in Bursa, Turkey owned by the Turkish automobile maker Tofaş and dedicated to various carriages from Turkey and Tofaş-manufactured cars.
İznik Museum
The İznik Museum, in the 14th-century Nilüfer Hatun Imaret, shows archaeological finds from ancient Nicaea and the famous İznik tiles and ceramics.
Bursa Karagöz Museum
Bursa Karagöz Museum is a museum located at Osmangazi in Bursa, northwestern Turkey, dedicated to the folkloric shadow play figures Karagöz and Hacivat.
Mudanya Armistice House
Mudanya Armistice House is a museum in Mudanya, Turkey. The museum is in the house where the treaty that acknowledged the Republic of Turkey was signed.
Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
The Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art is a museum located in the former medrese of Yeşil Complex, which was constructed within the order of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I in 1419. Its Turkish name is (in 2024) given as " Bursa Türk İslam Eserleri Müzesi" without the "ve",…
Places of worship
Bursa Grand Mosque
The Grand Mosque of Bursa is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey.
Orhan Gazi Mosque
The Orhan Gazi Mosque is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey. It is named after the Ottoman ruler Orhan, who founded the mosque in 1339–40 as part of a larger charitable complex.
Bursa Green Mosque
The Green Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Mehmed I, is a part of a larger complex (külliye) in eastern Bursa, Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman Turks before Constantinople was captured in 1453. The complex consists of a mosque, a mausoleum known as the Green Tomb,…
Hagia Sophia, Iznik
Hagia Sophia mosque in İznik (Nicaea) in Bursa Province, Turkey, was built as a Byzantine-era basilican church.
Bursa Protestant Church
The historic Protestant Church or Santa Maria French Church is the last active church in the city of Bursa (Prousa in Greek); it was built prior to the 1880s by the city's Levantine community, at a time when what is now Turkey's fourth-largest city still had a predominantly…
Emir Sultan Mosque
The Emir Sultan Mosque is a mosque in Bursa, Turkey. First built in the 15th century, it was rebuilt in 1804 for the Ottoman sultan Selim III and rebuilt again in 1868, the plan of the mosque changing slightly with each rebuild.
Fatih Mosque, Bursa
The Fatih Mosque is a mosque in Tirilye (Zeytinbağı), Bursa Province, Turkey. The structure was originally constructed in the 8th or 9th as a Byzantine church and was later converted to a Muslim place of worship during the 16th century.
Hacı Özbek Mosque
Haji Özbek Mosque is a historical Ottoman mosque in İznik, Turkey.
Hüdavendigar Mosque
Hüdavendigar Mosque or Murat I, the Hüdavendigar Mosque is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey, that is part of the large complex (külliye) built by the Ottoman Sultan, Murad I, between 1365–1385 and is also named after the same sultan.
Yeşil Mosque Iznik
The Green Mosque is a historic Ottoman mosque, located in İznik, Turkey.
Pelekete monastery
The Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, commonly known as the Pelekete Monastery, is a ruined Byzantine-era monastery near modern Tirilye in Turkey (medieval Trigleia in Bithynia).
Veled-i Yaniç Mosque
Veled-i Yaniç Mosque is an Ottoman mosque with the type of early Ottoman architecture. The mosque is located in Bursa, Turkey and it is still in use.
Bayezid I Mosque
Bayezid I Mosque is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey, that is part of the large complex (külliye) built by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I between 1391–1395.
Nature
Uludağ
Uludağ (Turkish), known historically as Mysian or Bithynian Olympus, is a mountain in Bursa Province, Turkey, with an elevation of 2,543 m (8,343 ft). Mt. Uludağ is the highest mountain of the Marmara region.
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