Places to visit

Things to do in Yozgat

60 destinations, each with a description, how long it takes and where it sits on the map.

In short

toroti’s catalogue holds 60 described destinations within Yozgat. The themes that come up most: Faith heritage, History, Nature, Local culture.

Çapanoğlu (Büyük) Camii

The first part of this mosque, which consists of two sections, was commissioned in 1779 by Mustafa bey, the eldest son of Çapanoğlu Ahmet Paşa; the second part was commissioned by his brother Süleyman bey in 1794 - 95. The architect is unknown, and with the addition made 16 years later, it consists of two sections as the inner mosque and the outer mosque. The inner mosque was built with white cut stone, and the outer mosque with light brown - burgundy cut stone.

20 minutes

Tiftik Han

It has a rectangular plan and two entrances, front and rear; it is two storeys high, its front facade was built of cut marble stone and quarry stone, and its roof is covered with tiles. Its exterior walls are completely clad in cut marble. There are 11 rooms on the upper floor, one of them small. The building eaves are moulded, and its roof is covered with tiles. On the upper part of the door of one of the upper-floor rooms, the date 1316 (Hijri) is written in relief.

30 minutes

Çadır Höyük

It is a mound located in Peyniryemez Village, on the Kanak Suyu Plain, in the southeast of Sorgun District. The hill measures 240 x 140 meters and its height is 32 meters above the plain level. It has been determined that the settlement has a history dating roughly to 5200 BC.

20 minutes

Salih Paşa Camii

Located in Sorgun district, on the bank of Sorgun Stream, this mosque was commissioned by Salih Paşa in 1813, as understood from its inscription and the Abjad calculation.

20 minutes

Pteria Antik Kenti (Kayıp Şehir)

The historic underground city located near Sorgun district. It is estimated to be approximately 4000 years old.

45 minutes

Hisarbeyli (Yoğurtyurdu) Yaylası

It is located near the village of Hisarbeyli, connected to the district of Sarıkaya. The hill, one side covered with pines and the other with small vegetation, is a plateau where the people of Hasbek and Hisarbeyli go in the summer months.

60 minutes

Yazilikaya Açikhava Tapinağı

Yazilikaya Açikhava Tapinağı

The most impressive sacred place of Hattuşa is Yazılıkaya Open-Air Sanctuary, hidden among the high rocks located a little outside the city. In this open-air sanctuary, which was used for the New Year celebrations of the period, the country’s important gods and goddesses were carved in relief on the rock in a row. Yazılıkaya, which can be visited in two sections, namely Chambers A and B, reflects the Hittite pantheon with its magnificent rock depictions.

45 minutes

Kayyimzade Camii

Kayyimzade Camii

Kayyımzade (Ali Efendi, Demircilik) Mosque is located in Köseoğlu Neighborhood. There is an inscription above the entrance door to the harim. According to its inscription, the mosque was built by Cevheri or Cevahir Ali Efendi in H.1219 / A.D.1804. Apart from the inscription, there is also a second date indicating the construction date of the mosque under the eaves of the last congregation area, inside a cartouche, on both sides (mirrored), in the form “1219 Maşallah–ı Kane”.

45 minutes

Kerkenes Harabeleri (kayip Şehir Pteria)

Kerkenes Harabeleri (kayip Şehir Pteria)

The first surface survey studies at the ancient city of Kerkenes Dağı, located in Şahmuratlı Village of Yozgat's Sorgun District, began in 1993, turned into a museum-participated research format in 1998-2000, and excavations and research have continued from 2001 to the present under the presidency of the British Dr.Geoffrey Summers.

45 minutes

Sarıkaya Roma Hamamı

Sarıkaya Roma Hamamı

Sarıkaya Roman Bath, or by its other name Kral Kızı Bath, which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2018, is in Kaplıcalar Neighborhood of Yozgat Sarıkaya District. The ancient name of Sarıkaya Roman Bath, which is located within the thermal spring facilities, from the Roman Period is “Basilica Therma (Aqua Sarvenae)”. A large part of Sarıkaya Roman Bath has been destroyed; only the west facade wall providing access to the vaulted rear space has remained standing.

45 minutes

Yozgat Sarıkaya Kaplıcaları

Yozgat Sarıkaya Kaplıcaları

Sarıkaya Hot Springs have been declared a thermal tourism center by a Council of Ministers decision. The hot spring waters, located in the district center of Sarıkaya, 77 kilometers southeast of Yozgat, belong to the group of fluoride-containing oligometallic waters and have a temperature of 48 °C and a flow rate of 28 lt/sec.

45 minutes

Nakipzade Camii

Nakipzade Camii

The mosque is in Köseoğlu Mahallesi. The structure is dated according to the inscription above the entrance door to the harim. According to the madrasa inscription above the entrance door to the harim of the mosque, the mosque was built together with the madrasa in H.1260 / A.D.1844 by Hoşyar Kadın, the second wife of Mahmut II. In the inscription, Hoşyar Kadın, who appears as the spiritual daughter of Beyhan Sultan and the daughter of Mihrimah Sultan, is in fact the spiritual mother of Beyhan Sultan and the biological mother of Mihrimah Sultan.

45 minutes

Çapanoğlu Camii

Çapanoğlu Camii

Çapanoğlu Camii is in a central location of the city, in the İstanbulluoğlu neighborhood near Cumhuriyet Meydanı. The structure, popularly known as Büyük Cami or Ulucami, is one of the important examples in Anatolia of the Turkish architectural style that emerged under European influence during the Ottoman Empire Period. Of the mosque, which was built on two separate dates, the section built first is called the “inner mosque”, and the section built later is called the “outer mosque”.

45 minutes

Çayiralan Çerkez Bey Türbesi

Çayiralan Çerkez Bey Türbesi

This tomb, located in Yozgat’s Çayıralan district, belongs to Çerkez Bey, who held a timar in Bozok in 1542 and was Kırşehir Sanjak Bey in 1557–1558. From the sources, it is understood that in the second half of the XVIth century, present-day Çayıralan was Çerkez Bey’s farm. The tomb, located to the southeast of the mosque known as Kümbetli Cami and within the same courtyard, is a structure with an octagonal plan on a square base, domed inside and with a pointed conical roof outside.

45 minutes

Yusuf Karslioğlu Konağı

Yusuf Karslioğlu Konağı

The mansion, known to have been built in 1883, was purchased by Yusuf KARSLIOĞLU, who served as the Mayor of Yozgat between 1929 and 1936, and since it was used by him for a long time, it was named “Karslıoğlu Mansion.” The first restoration works in the mansion, which was expropriated by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1977 to be used as an Archaeology Museum, were completed in 1990.

45 minutes

Çekerek Şehitler Anıti

Çekerek Şehitler Anıti

While the district of Çekerek was a central village under the name Hacıköy, it was connected to the Zile District of Sivas. When the district center was moved to Kadışehri in 1924-1925, Hacıköy was also connected to this district. One year later, the district center was moved from Kadışehri to Hacıköy. However, when Sorgun later became a district, Hacıköy remained a village connected to this district.

45 minutes

Nizamoğlu Konağı

Nizamoğlu Konağı

It is estimated that Nizamoğlu Konağı was built before 871. Today, the building, which is used as a museum, is a two-storey mansion with a hipped roof, set on sloping ground, with its eastern facade facing the street and surrounded by a small garden. The ground floor consists of storage and service rooms arranged around a “U”-shaped hall. The horizontal arm of the “U” is in the form of a rectangle close to a square.

45 minutes

Yozgat Askerlik Şubesi Binası

Yozgat Askerlik Şubesi Binası

Located to the southeast of Cumhuriyet Meydanı in Yozgat Merkez, the Yozgat Military Recruitment Office Building was built in H.1311 / A.D.1895 - 1896 during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, according to its inscription. It was constructed as a two-storey building. Yellow cut stone was used as the building material in the structure. The entrance to the building is provided from a porticoed space on the north facade. The portico arches are supported by four cylindrical stone columns.

45 minutes

Yozgat Lisesi

Yozgat Lisesi

The high school building is two storeys excluding the basement floor. Cut yellow stone was used as the building material. Access to the building is provided from the south facade, and there is an oriel above the entrance door. There is a six-line inscription written on marble stone above the entrance door. Since its inscription has been erased, it cannot be read. However, sources state that the building was constructed in H.1311/ A.D.1895 - 1896.

45 minutes

Çamlik Milli Parkı

Çamlik Milli Parkı

Yozgat Çamlık National Park was declared a national park in 1958. Çamlık National Park, which has an area of 264 hectares, is Turkey's first national park. According to a study conducted in 1982, Yozgat Çamlığı National Park contains the Black Pine species known as Caucasian Pine (Pinus nigra Arn. Subsp. Pallasiana), which is 400 – 500 years old. This pine species is found only in Çamlık in Turkey and they are still able to produce seeds.

45 minutes

Hayri İnal Konağı

Hayri İnal Konağı

Located on Emniyet Caddesi in Merkez İstanbulluoğlu Mahallesi, Hayri İnal Evi is a fine example of Ottoman Period civil architecture and was registered by the Gayri Menkul Eski Eserler Yüksek Kuruluğu Başkanlığı in 1979 by being included among the Old Artifacts Required to Be Protected. The mansion was restored by Yozgat Municipality in 2007 with the contributions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and brought into local tourism.

45 minutes

Çeşka Yeraltı Şehri

Çeşka Yeraltı Şehri

Çeşka Underground City is located approximately 3 kilometers northeast of Yozgat city center and north of the irrigation pond known as Kirazlı Göleti, on top of a high hill dominating the surroundings, exactly at the summit. The main entrance gate in the northwestern part of the underground city, which was determined to have been entered from three separate points, has been closed.

45 minutes

Miralay Şerif Bey Konağı / Sakarya İlkokulu

Miralay Şerif Bey Konağı / Sakarya İlkokulu

Sakarya Primary School (Miralay Şerif Bey Mansion) was declared a cultural asset requiring protection in 1979 by the Presidency of the High Council of Immovable Antiquities due to being one of the works of the Late Ottoman Period, its age, its architectural structure, and its being adorned with Atatürk’s memories. It was commissioned by Miralay Şerif Bey, who served as the Regiment Commander in Yozgat in the 1890s.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni Muşalikalesi

Akdağmadeni Muşalikalesi

Akdağmadeni Muşalikalesi (Behramşah Castle); (Ali Çelebi and Mahmut Çelebi Tombs) Akdağmadeni Muşalikalesi is a small castle, built on a high hill to the north of the village in Akdağmadeni Muşalikalesi Village. This castle, belonging to Necmed-din Bahramşah-ı Candar, one of the emirs of Gıyaseddin Keykavus (1237-1246), is thought to have been built probably in the first half of the XIII. century. The high castle walls are faced with cut stone over rubble stone.

45 minutes

Gedikhasanli Şakir Efendi Türbesi

Gedikhasanli Şakir Efendi Türbesi

Mehmet Şakir Suntay (Gedikhasanlı Şakir Efendi) was originally from Kayseri’s Cami-i Kebir Mahallesi and belonged to a family that had settled in Yozgat’s Gedikhasanlı Köyü. He was the middle son of Ali Efendi, who was from this family known in Kayseri by the name of Cücezadeler. He was born in Yozgat in 1853. He first began his education in the village where he was born and later completed Osmanpaşa Medresesi.

45 minutes

Çapanoğlu Çifte Hamamı / Çarşı Hamamı

Çapanoğlu Çifte Hamamı / Çarşı Hamamı

The Hamam, located in the city center, is 100 meters southeast of Çapanoğlu Camii. It has no inscription. The building is dated according to its vakfiye. The men's section was built after the vakfiye date of Kapucubaşı Çapanoğlu Mustafa Bey, H. 1 Muharrem 1195 M. 28 December 1780, and the women's section was built by Kapucubaşı Çapanoğlu Süleyman Bey in H.1208 M. 1793.

45 minutes

Şeyh Hacı Ahmet Efendi Camii

Şeyh Hacı Ahmet Efendi Camii

The mosque is located on Şeyhzade Caddesi in Taşköprü Mahallesi. It was commissioned by Şeyh Hacı Ahmet Efendi in 1859, and its inscription was written by Hacı Ahmet Efendi with the pen name Terki. The harim has a longitudinal rectangular plan and a flat ceiling. On the south, on the axis, there is a mihrab with a semi-cylindrical body, and next to it (to the west) is a newly made wooden minbar whose railings were made with the lattice carving technique.

45 minutes

Akdağ Madeni Eski Cezaevi

Akdağ Madeni Eski Cezaevi

The Akdağ Madeni Old Prison building is in Yozgat Akdağmadeni District. It has a rectangular plan and two entrances, front and rear; it is two storeys, its front facade was built of cut marble stone and quarry stone, and its roof is covered with tiles. It has a large double-leaf door with a round arch and arched windows. Its exterior walls are completely clad in cut marble.

45 minutes

Paşaköy Kasabası Tokmak Hasan Paşa Camii

Paşaköy Kasabası Tokmak Hasan Paşa Camii

Tokmak Hasan Paşa Camii, located in Hasanpaşa Mahallesi of Paşaköy Town, Şefaatli District, was built in H.1187 (M.1773). The mosque is single-storey and has a hipped roof. Its walls were built with a masonry stone construction system. It is oriented north-south and has a rectangular plan. There are rows of windows on the lower and upper levels. The walls are whitewashed over plaster. The minaret of the building was added later, with a spiral form and a single balcony. The mosque was repaired in 1895.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni Sağlik Ocağı / Küpçüoğlu Evi

Akdağmadeni Sağlik Ocağı / Küpçüoğlu Evi

The square-planned building is two storeys high, and the corner stones of its exterior surface, the door and window arches are made of smoothly cut marble stone, while the other parts are made of plain marble. In front of the entrance door there are two marble columns with octagonal forms and plain capitals, and above the entrance there is a balcony with the same features. The entrance and balcony door are round-arched, and on the front facade there are six round-arched windows with iron grilles on both the lower and upper floors.

45 minutes

Hacı Ozan Evi

Hacı Ozan Evi

This building, located in Nohutlu Mahallesi, consists of a basement, ground floor and one upper floor. The building, which is still used as a residence by its heirs, is one of the rare examples of the Late Ottoman period in Yozgat. Located within a large garden and having entrances through two garden gates, one to the west and the other to the south, Hacı Ozan Evi, although it has sections that have undergone changes over time, has been very well preserved and possesses rare decorative elements.

45 minutes

Cumhuriyet İlkokulu / Bozok Üniversitesi Rektörlük Binası

Cumhuriyet İlkokulu / Bozok Üniversitesi Rektörlük Binası

Cumhuriyet Primary School was registered as a cultural asset requiring protection in 1977 by the Presidency of the High Council of Immovable Ancient Monuments. The school, which was used as a primary school from its construction until 2006, and has been used as the Bozok University Rectorate building since 2007, has a rectangular plan and is two storeys excluding the basement. Cumhuriyet Primary School is on the right side of the Ankara - Sivas road route in Medrese Neighborhood.

45 minutes

Muteber Divanlioğlu Konağı

Muteber Divanlioğlu Konağı

The mansion is located at the intersection of Kurtuluş Sokağı and Kuyulu Çeşme Sokağı in İstanbulluoğlu Mahallesi. The building was constructed as two storeys. There is an outbuilding and a shade structure in the garden. The door and window frames of the building are made of wood, and it has a wooden pitched roof. There are metal bars on the window frames. The windows on the upper floor were made in a 1/1 ratio, while those on the ground floor were made in a 1/2 ratio.

45 minutes

Çapanoğullari Aile Türbesi

Çapanoğullari Aile Türbesi

The tomb located in İstanbulluoğlu Neighborhood in the center of Yozgat is a cubic, white cut-stone structure with a small dome, projecting outward from the body walls at the northeast corner where the first and second sections of Çapanoğlu Camisi meet. It was commissioned by Mustafa Bey together with the mosque in 1777 – 1779. There is also a vakfiye stating this. The tomb is square-planned and built of cut stone, and is covered with a dome.

45 minutes

Musa Ağa Camii

Musa Ağa Camii

The mosque is located on Musa Ağa Street in Nohutlu Neighborhood. According to its inscription, the mosque was commissioned in H.1215 - A.D.1800 by Musa Ağa Bin Hasan, the harem steward of Çapanoğlu Süleyman Bey. There is a cemetery on the east, north and west sides of the mosque. His grave is located in the cemetery 4 - 5 meters to the east of the mosque. The mosque prayer hall has a longitudinal rectangular plan and a flat ceiling.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni Kilisesi

Akdağmadeni Kilisesi

It is understood from the inscription that the church located in Yeşildere (Tahmaz) Neighborhood of Akdağmadeni District was built in 1862. The front facade of the church is made of cut stone, and its other facades are made of cut marble stone; on the front part, there is an entrance opening with a round arch. The arches are connected to each other by two round stones in the middle and two angular stones on the sides.

45 minutes

Sorgun Kaplıcaları

Sorgun Kaplıcaları

Sorgun Hot Springs were declared a Thermal Tourism Center by a Council of Ministers decision. It is known that the hot spring waters located in Sorgun District, 34 kilometers east of Yozgat, belong to the Chloride Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Sulfate waters group, and have a temperature between 50 – 60 °C and a flow rate of 40 lt./sec.

45 minutes

Şeh Necdi Mescidi

Şeh Necdi Mescidi

The mosque is located in the bazaar in Nohutlu Mahallesi. The building has no inscription. There is a waqf copy dated H. Cemaziyel evvel 1326 M. 20 Haziran 1908. Its founder is Konyalı Şeyh El Hac Salih Sabri Dede Efendi bin Hasan. The mosque, which was used as a public library for a long time and is known by the name of its last sheikh (Şeyh Necdi), the old Mevlevi dervish lodge mosque, is located on lise caddesi within the bazaar. The harim has a transverse rectangular plan, a flat ceiling, and a hipped roof.

45 minutes

Çinçinli Sultan Hanı / Eski Han

Çinçinli Sultan Hanı / Eski Han

Çınçınlı Sultan Hanı, located in Saray Mahallesi of Saraykent District and also known by the name Eski Han, is today in a rather ruined condition. The building's west wall has disappeared, the facing stones of the other surviving exterior walls have been stripped away, and for this reason the walls have become thinner. Remains of annexes can be seen to the southwest of the structure. It has a rectangular plan and is oriented east-west. The walls, built in a herringbone pattern using rubble stone with Horasan mortar, are faced with stone.

45 minutes

Kızlar Kayası

Kızlar Kayası

It is a rock by the Çekerek river, built during the Genoese period, high and pointed, and descended toward the river and underground by approximately two hundred steps. According to rumor; those who settled on the high hill to the east of the rock built these steps to get water from the river. It is also rumored that a Greek Bey had these steps built for his sick daughter.

20 minutes

Salim Korkmaz Konağı

Salim Korkmaz Konağı

The mansion, located within a large garden, has a garden entrance on its north side on Başçavuş Sokağı. From the stone consoles seen in line with the building’s north facade, it is understood that the existing garden entrance was moved inward. The stone-paved area draws attention with its original stone flooring. The mansion, located to the west of the stone-paved area, was built as Ground+1 floor. Due to the slope of the land, it is two storeys on the single-storey facade in the east-west directions.

45 minutes

Boğazliyan Kaplıcası

Boğazliyan Kaplıcası

Boğazlıyan Thermal Springs is located 95 kilometers south of Yozgat and is known for its healing waters, which have been reported to be beneficial for various health issues.

Akdağmadeni Eski Askerlik Şubesi

Akdağmadeni Eski Askerlik Şubesi

Akdağmadeni Old Military Recruitment Office; it has a rectangular plan and is two storeys. The ground floor is entered through a portico with angular marble columns. The top of the portico forms the upper floor entrance balcony. Two round wooden columns support the wooden ceiling above the balcony. Between the columns are 3 arches and 2 pendants made of thin wooden slats. The balcony facade has a triangular pediment. On the lower floor there is a hall entered through a simple door. Three rooms open onto the hall. There is a fireplace in the room opposite the entrance.

45 minutes

Yerköy Kaplıcaları

Yerköy Kaplıcaları

Yerköy District is located 41 kilometers west of Yozgat. It is known that the thermal spring waters located in Yerköy District belong to the group of chlorinated sulfate waters and have a temperature of 44 degrees.

45 minutes

Bozok Yaylası

Bozok Yaylası

The region where the lands of Yozgat are located is called the “Bozok Plateau.” The plateau, which lies within the Kızılırmak arc, consists of gently undulating plains cut by valleys reaching the Delice River and Çorum Suyu. The Bozok Plateau extends to the Akdağlar in the east. In the northeast, the branches of Deveci Dağı extending westward disappear among the plains. In the southwest, low mountains appear again toward Kırşehir.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni Ortaokulu

Akdağmadeni Ortaokulu

Akdağmadeni Secondary School is a single-storey structure, oriented north-south, with a rectangular plan and entirely clad in cut stone. The entrance has an iwan, and on the façade there are two columns and, between them, pointed and depressed arches. On the inset marble plaque, the courthouse logo and the inscription "Adliye Sarayı" below draw attention. The east façade is plain, while on the west façade two rooms project outward. The windows have depressed arches, and their keystones also project outward.

45 minutes

Karabiyik Köprüsü

Karabiyik Köprüsü

Karabıyık Bridge was commissioned by Yavuz Sultan Selim in the year (1516), while going on the Egypt campaign, over kanak suyu, approximately 500 meters north of the Karabıyık Village road junction on the Yozgat Boğazlayan road and approximately 200 - 250 meters from the road. It is a two-span pointed-arch bridge with stone parapets, built in masonry with a rubble stone core faced with neatly cut stone. The transition to the stone parapets was made with a projecting molding.

45 minutes

Yozgat Bilal Şahin Külliyesi

Yozgat Bilal Şahin Külliyesi

Yozgat Bilal Şahin Külliyesi; The construction of the Külliye, which was started by our businessman Bilal ŞAHİN on 23.08.2010 in Bilal Şahin Mahallesi Kent Park Mevkii, was completed within 3 years, and it was opened on 05.07.2013.

45 minutes

Saraykent Yılan Boynu Tepesi

Saraykent Yılan Boynu Tepesi

Access to Yılanboynu Tepesi, located in Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak Mahallesi of Saraykent District and approximately 50 meters north of the district center, is provided by the newly opened stabilized road. The settlement area, approximately 250 meters in diameter, descends from the steep slopes of the natural rocky hills down to the foothills. The west, south, and hilltop parts of the settlement have been damaged by illegal excavations.

45 minutes

Yozgat Saat Kulesi

Yozgat Saat Kulesi

Yozgat Clock Tower was commissioned during the mayoralty of Tevfik Zade Ahmet Bey to a master named Şakir Usta. This imposing and centuries-old tower in the city center of Yozgat has seven floors including the ground floor and the sections where the bells are located. It was built with cut stone in yellow köfeke. From the floor where the bells are located, there are 4 clocks placed separately on each facade of the first floor above. The bells that ring every hour can be heard from every part of the city.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni İstanbulluoğlu Camii

Akdağmadeni İstanbulluoğlu Camii

The structure, built as a church, was constructed of cut stone. Today, the structure, which is open for worship as a mosque, is located within a courtyard and has a rectangular plan. At the entrance, the round-arched narthex was later enclosed and one room was made on each side. The narthex has three arches. The columns at the corners are angular, while those in the middle are round. A minaret was later built on the bell tower to the south. Access to the minaret is provided from outside.

45 minutes

Çekereksu Hanı

Çekereksu Hanı

Çekereksu Hanı, located at the point where the Kesikköprü and Örencik villages intersect on the Yozgat - Kadışehri road, was commissioned by Valide Sultan Melike Mahperi Hatun in 1239-1240. Çekereksu Hanı was built as a masonry structure of rubble stone and lime mortar, extending longitudinally in the north-south direction. The upper covering system of its remains is a barrel vault. The structure consists of two main units.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni Ziraat Bankası

Akdağmadeni Ziraat Bankası

Akdağmadeni Ziraat Bankası is a two-storey building with a rectangular plan, built of marble and cut stone. The front facade has largely preserved its originality, while the other facades and the interior were later plastered and painted. There are two separate entrances on the ground floor, one leading to the ground floor and the other to the upper floor. There are eight windows on the ground floor. On the upper floor, two bay windows are supported by three eli böğründe each. Above the bay windows is a triangular pediment each, and in the middle of these is a round window each.

45 minutes

Şebekpinari Yaylası

Şebekpinari Yaylası

The plateau located on the Aydıncık District - Eymir road is situated 1 kilometer south of Aydıncık District, on Gezbel Hill at an altitude of 1700 meters, overlooking Aydıncık, in the mountains known as Daşlı Dağlar. Şebekpınarı and its surroundings, which have been used as a picnic area for many years, were included in the program by the General Directorate of National Parks as “Şebek Forest Recreation Area”; facilities such as environmental landscaping, seating areas and a rain shelter have been built.

45 minutes

Şefaatli “koşa Köprüsü”

Şefaatli “koşa Köprüsü”

Koşa Köprüsü, located on the Aksu River in Şefaatli District of Yozgat, is 7,40 metres wide, 35,20 metres long and 5,20 metres high, together with the pedestrian path. It has been understood that the third arch on the southern side of the three-arched bridge was built in reinforced concrete in the 1965-1970s. In the repair carried out by the municipality in May 1989, this concrete part was covered with stone. There are two bridge cutwaters to the west of the bridge. The pedestrian path is a concrete deck.

45 minutes

Akdağmadeni Kadipinari Yaylası

Akdağmadeni Kadipinari Yaylası

Kadıpınarı, located within the Akdağ Forests to the northwest of Akdağmadeni District, is 2 kilometers from Akdağmadeni District. Within the Akdağ Forests, under the management of the General Directorate of National Parks, where Forest Recreation Facilities are located, it spreads over a very large area and has a rich vegetation cover consisting of pine, oak and various trees. The Akdağ forests are a region with clean cold waters and various game animals.

45 minutes

Sorgun Garipler Köyü Kilisesi

Sorgun Garipler Köyü Kilisesi

The church measures 17x12,3 m. The apse length is 3,4 meters. Its roof is partially collapsed. All of its walls are intact except for the upper part of the southwest corner. Cut stone was used at the corners, windows, arches and doors, and rubble stone in the other parts. The narthex section is on the west. The church was used for a period as a mosque and then as a school.

45 minutes

Sorgun Karakiz Ve Kazankaya Hitit Heykel Atölyeleri

Sorgun Karakiz Ve Kazankaya Hitit Heykel Atölyeleri

Processed and semi-processed basalt stones have been identified approximately 500 metres north of the Karakız Municipality service building, in the rocky area where a lion statue is located, indicating that it was used as a sculpture workshop during the Hittite Period.

45 minutes

Eski Kilise

Eski Kilise

It was built in 1862. It is located in the Yeşildere neighborhood of the district. The front facades of the church are made of stone, and its exterior facades are made of marble. The church has a round-arched entrance opening. The ones in the middle are round, while the ones on the sides are connected to each other with two angular stones. There are a total of 13 Greek inscriptions in the church. The interior of the church is rectangular, and its floor is paved with stone. The eight columns inside the church divide the church into three equal parts in the east and west directions.

30 minutes

Şefaatli Kalesi

Şefaatli Kalesi

The castle, which has a very ancient history and is in the form of a large Tumulus, is also said among citizens, considering the historical indicators, to have been used by the Lydians as a coin minting center in the Anatolian region. The castle, which came onto the radar of treasure hunters in many periods, is now known as the only place where the district residents, guests and expatriates spend time, with the wedding hall, cafe and excursion areas built on it.

30 minutes