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Walking routes · Antalya

Old bazaar to Murat Paşa Mosque

From the Clock Tower into the old bazaar streets north of Kaleiçi, past an old han and a market bath, and on to the 16th-century Murat Paşa Mosque.

Best time: Weekday morning, when the shops are open.

The route, stop by stop

  1. 1
    Kalekapısı Clock Tower

    Start at the Clock Tower by Kalekapısı. 5 min

    The square clock tower sits on a bastion of the old Kale Kapısı, the land gate of Kaleiçi that was pulled down around the First World War. It is the meeting point of Kalekapısı…

  2. 2
    Tekeli Mehmet Paşa Mosque

    Mosque beside the Clock Tower; dress modestly to go in. 10 min

    Early 17th-century Ottoman mosque (1607-1616) with a marble mihrab and pulpit, restored by the Vakıflar directorate from 2018, when painted decoration under the domes came to…

  3. 3
    Old bazaar

    The market streets just north of the old town. 20 min

  4. 4
    İki Kapılı Han (Two-Gate Inn)

    The 'two-door inn', an old han in the bazaar. 5 min

    One of only two of Antalya's old city-centre hans (caravan inns) to survive; the 1875 Konya provincial yearbook listed seven. The 19th-century, two-storey building with wooden…

  5. 5
    Pazar Hamamı (Çifte Hamam) arcade

    The 'market bath', an old hamam in the bazaar streets. 5 min

    A late 16th or early 17th-century Ottoman double bath (separate men's and women's halls) that now works as an arcade of coffee shops and small stores, so you can drink a coffee…

  6. 6
    Balibey Mosque

    Neighbourhood mosque in the Balbey quarter. 5 min

    Late 15th-century domed mosque built by the frontier commander Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey, with a carved wooden mihrab and pulpit. It is the neighbourhood mosque of Balbey, the old…

  7. 7
    Murat Paşa Mosque

    Built in 1570, with Roman Corinthian capitals reused in the building; dress modestly. 15 min

    Built in 1570-71 by the grand vizier Murad Pasha, it has the earliest tile decoration of any Ottoman mosque in Antalya under a high dome on a ten-sided drum. It stands among the…

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