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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

    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

    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

    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

    Bursa Grand Mosque

    The Grand Mosque of Bursa is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey.

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    Cumalıkızık Village

    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

    Yeşil Türbe

    The Green Tomb is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey.

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    Koza Han

    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.

5 hidden gems

Little-known places that aren't on any route. They unlock when you've explored half the city in person with the app.

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.

    By car · 6 h · 18 km · 7 stops

Places to visit

Historic sites

  • Koza Han

    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.

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  • Irgandı Bridge

    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.

    Has a story

  • Yeşil Türbe

    Yeşil Türbe

    The Green Tomb is a mausoleum of the fifth Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed I, in Bursa, Turkey.

    Has a story

  • Cumalıkızık Village

    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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  • Abdal Bridge

    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.

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  • Apollonia ad Rhyndacum

    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.

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  • Muradiye Complex

    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.

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  • Nicaea

    Nicaea

    Nicaea, also known as Nikaia or Nice ( or), was an ancient Greek city in the northwestern Anatolian region of Bithynia.

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Museums

  • Bursa Archaeological Museum

    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.

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  • Bursa Atatürk Museum

    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.

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  • Bursa Museum of Forestry

    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.

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  • Tofaş Museum of Cars and Anatolian Carriages

    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.

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  • İznik Museum

    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.

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  • Bursa Karagöz Museum

    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.

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  • Mudanya Armistice House

    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.

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  • Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art

    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",…

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Places of worship

  • Bursa Grand Mosque

    Bursa Grand Mosque

    The Grand Mosque of Bursa is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey.

    Has a story

  • Orhan Gazi Mosque

    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.

    Has a story

  • Bursa Green Mosque

    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,…

    Has a story

  • Hagia Sophia, Iznik

    Hagia Sophia, Iznik

    Hagia Sophia mosque in İznik (Nicaea) in Bursa Province, Turkey, was built as a Byzantine-era basilican church.

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  • Bursa Protestant 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…

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  • Emir Sultan Mosque

    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.

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  • Fatih Mosque, Bursa

    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.

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  • Hacı Özbek Mosque

    Hacı Özbek Mosque

    Haji Özbek Mosque is a historical Ottoman mosque in İznik, Turkey.

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  • Hüdavendigar Mosque

    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.

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  • Yeşil Mosque Iznik

    Yeşil Mosque Iznik

    The Green Mosque is a historic Ottoman mosque, located in İznik, Turkey.

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  • Pelekete monastery

    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).

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  • Veled-i Yaniç Mosque

    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.

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  • Bayezid I Mosque

    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.

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Nature

  • Uludağ

    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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