Places to visit
Things to do in Sorgun
10 destinations, each with a description, how long it takes and where it sits on the map.
In short
toroti’s catalogue holds 10 described destinations within Sorgun, Yozgat. The themes that come up most: History, Faith heritage, Local culture, Nature.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alişar Höyüğü
Alişar Höyüğü, located near Kadılı Köyü in Sorgun district, was settled in the Copper Age in the 4th millennium BC and between the 1st millennium BC. In the Early and Middle Bronze Age in the 3rd millennium BC, Alişar became a city surrounded by walls. It eventually became the most important city of the region. Like Kaniş (Kültepe) to its south, it became a trade center to which Assyrian merchants came in the 2nd millennium BC.
20 minutes