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Eastern Mediterranean


A branch of a smart national chain, with plenty of plate glass and waiters in shirt sleeves, this excellent cafe and pastane (patisserie) has a curb-side terrace for dithering over çay, cakes and dondurma (ice cream). Ignore the Starbucks next door.


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1. Adana Belediyesi

0.6 MILES

Adana's vast and rather stern-looking belediye (municipality) council building is a useful landmark on Atatürk Caddesi.

2. Adana Museum

0.62 MILES

Now housed in an enormous purpose-built complex on the site of a former textile factory about 4km west of the centre, Turkey's largest museum might also…

3. Kuruköprü Memorial Museum

0.78 MILES

Just off İnönü Caddesi, what was until recently the city's ethnography museum has now reopened as an art gallery with some ethnographic exhibits,…

4. Yeni Cami

0.88 MILES

Built in 1724, the central Yeni Cami follows the general square plan of the city's Ulu Cami, with two rows of five domes.

5. St Paul's Catholic Church

0.95 MILES

Built in 1870 by the Armenian community, this church is still in service today as a Roman Catholic place of worship.

6. Sabancı Central Mosque

0.96 MILES

The most imposing mosque in Adana is the six-minaret Sabancı Merkez Camii, rising gracefully from the left bank of the Seyhan River. The largest mosque…

7. Atatürk Statue

1.04 MILES

Adana's monument to modern Turkey's founder presides over the busy centre of the city.

8. Yağ Camii

1.23 MILES

The Yağ Camii, with its imposing portal and typical Seljuk-style architecture, started life as a Crusader church dedicated to St James but was converted…