Village and rural life
Cumalıkızık
Yıldırım, Bursa
A 700-year-old village at the foot of Uludağ preserving the rural settlement pattern of the Ottoman founding period; UNESCO World Heritage.
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Its story
Cumalıkızık is one of the Kızık villages founded as endowment (vakıf) villages in the founding years of the Ottoman state. With its narrow cobbled streets, stone-and-timber masonry houses and village square, it is a rare preserved example of early Ottoman rural life. In 2014 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List together with Bursa's historic buildings under the name 'Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire'. The village has an ethnography museum, a historic hammam and a mosque. The raspberries, village breakfast and gözleme sold in front of the houses are an essential part of the visit.
Key facts
- UNESCO
- 2014 (Bursa and Cumalıkızık)
- Getting there
- About 10 km from central Bursa
- Visit duration
- 2–3 hours
Trip purpose
- Free
- Photography
- Food route
- Hiking
Location
40.17521, 29.17269
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Source: Web derlemesi (doğrulanmalı): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumal%C4%B1k%C4%B1z%C4%B1k | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumal%C4%B1k%C4%B1z%C4%B1k | https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1452/ | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1897419