Sardis
Sardis is the excavated capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, on the outskirts of the modern village of Sart in the Salihli district of Manisa province, roughly 72 km from İzmir along the Ankara-İzmir corridor.
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Sardis is the excavated capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, on the outskirts of the modern village of Sart in the Salihli district of Manisa province, roughly 72 km from İzmir along the Ankara-İzmir corridor.
Bin Tepe is the royal burial ground of ancient Lydia, a field of more than a hundred earthen tumuli spread across a low limestone ridge on the southern shore of Marmara Gölü, several kilometres north of Sardis across the Gediz…
Spil Dağı
Mount Sipylus — Spil Dağı in Turkish — is the 1,513 m limestone massif standing immediately south of Manisa, the highest point on the city's skyline and the reason the city sits where it does.
Kula Volkanik Jeoparkı
Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark, signed locally as Kula Volkanik Jeoparkı, is a 2,320 square kilometre protected volcanic landscape spanning the Kula and Salihli districts of Manisa Province, roughly 100 km east of Manisa city.
Manisa Müzesi
The Manisa Museum is the archaeological and ethnographic collection of the province, and as of 17 May 2025 it no longer stands where earlier guides to Manisa describe it.
Spil Dağı Millî Parkı
Spil Dağı Milli Parkı is the protected forest on the mountain behind Manisa, opened to the public on 22 April 1968.
Once a year Manisa climbs onto the roof of a mosque and throws medicine at its own population.
Alyattes'in Tümülüsü
The Tumulus of Alyattes — Alyattes'in Tümülüsü on local maps — is the largest of the Bin Tepe mounds and one of the largest burial tumuli known anywhere, traditionally identified with the Lydian king Alyattes, father of Croesus, who died…
Sultan Camii
The Sultan Mosque is the centrepiece of Manisa and the reason the city has a festival.
Muradiye Külliyesi
The Muradiye Külliyesi is the walled compound Sultan Murad III endowed in Manisa, and it is the reason three of the city's sights sit within a few steps of each other.
Niobe Ağlayan Kaya
The Weeping Rock of Niobe — Ağlayan Kaya on the roadside marker — is a natural cliff formation on the northern flank of Mount Sipylus above Manisa, in Dere Mahallesi — formerly Karaköy — at Çaybaşı, along the stream of…
Kula Perbacaları seyir terası
Kuladokya is a fairy-chimney viewing terrace and 1.2 kilometre walking trail inside the Kula-Salihli UNESCO Global Geopark, near Yurtbaşı village on the İzmir-Ankara highway, about 16 km from Kula town.
Ulu Camii
The Ulu Camii is the oldest important mosque in Manisa and the one that predates the Ottomans here.
Tepemezarı
Thyatira is the ancient city underneath part of modern Akhisar, in Manisa province, and one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation.
Aigai is an ancient Greek city on top of Mount Gün, in the Yunt range north of Manisa, near the village of Yuntdağı Köseler. It is the most substantial classical site in Manisa province and almost nobody goes.
Sandikkale
Sandıkkale is the inner citadel of the Byzantine-era Manisa Kalesi, on the north slope of Spil Dağı immediately above Manisa city centre, in the Turgutalp neighbourhood.
The Basilica of St John stands in the middle of modern Alaşehir, on the ground of ancient Philadelphia, one of the seven cities addressed directly in the Book of Revelation.
Sart Kalesi
Sardis Acropolis — Sart Kalesi on the road signs and local maps — is the fortified hilltop above Sardis, the citadel the Lydian capital was built around and the last stronghold the city ever held.
Giges Tümülüsü
The Tumulus of Gyges — Giges Tümülüsü on local maps, and known archaeologically as Karnıyarık Tepe — is the second-largest of the more than a hundred royal Lydian mounds gathered in the Bin Tepe field north of Sart, in Salihli…
Kula
Kula Volcano is an extinct cinder cone in the Kula volcanic field, the feature that gives the field and the surrounding Kula-Salihli Geopark their name.
Divlit Yanardağı
Divlit Yanardağı, known locally as Çakallar Tepesi or Divlittepe, is a cinder cone on the shore of the Demirköprü Reservoir in Kula district, at roughly 750 m above sea level.
Hatuniye Cami
The Hatuniye Camii was built in 1490–91 by Şehzade Şehinşah, a son of Bayezid II, in honour of his mother Hüsnüşah Hatun.
Alaşehir throws its festival at the one moment of the year when the whole district smells of drying fruit.
Manisa Mevevihane Müzesi
The Manisa Mevlevihane is a Mevlevi dervish lodge built in 1368-69 by İshak Çelebi, grandson of the Saruhanoğlu ruler Saruhan Bey, on a slope at the foot of Spil Mountain.
Saruhan Bey Türbesi
The tomb of Saruhan Bey is the oldest dated monument in Manisa's historic quarter, built in 1345 by his grandson İshak Çelebi.
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