The Stone Works Museum of Fine Minaret, officially İnce Minare Taş ve Ahşap Eserleri Müzesi, is a specialist museum of carved stone and wooden works housed inside İnce Minareli Medrese in central Konya, Türkiye. It stands in the Selçuklu district on Alaaddin Boulevard, close to Alaaddin Hill, one of the city’s most important historic landmarks. […]

Konya Archaeological Museum is a state archaeological museum in Sahibiata, Meram, in the historic center of Konya, Türkiye. It is worth visiting because it gives the city’s pre-Seljuk past a clear, object-rich voice: Çatalhöyük-related Neolithic finds, Bronze and Iron Age ceramics, Roman marble sarcophagi, Byzantine mosaics, inscriptions, steles, and the celebrated Herakles Sarcophagus all appear […]

Karatay Madrasa, officially Karatay Medresesi Çini Eserler Müzesi, is a restored Seljuk madrasa and tile works museum in Ferhuniye, Selçuklu, in central Konya, Türkiye. Built in 1251 by Emir Celâleddin Karatay during the reign of Sultan II. İzzeddin Keykâvus, it stands near Alaeddin Hill, one of the city’s most important medieval landmarks. It is worth […]

Konya Panorama Müzesi is a contemporary interpretive museum in Aziziye, Karatay, directly opposite the Mevlâna Museum area in central Konya. It is currently publicly listed as open, with official visiting hours of 09:00 to 17:00 on the museum’s own pages, and it presents itself as a visual gateway to thirteenth-century Konya, Hz. Mevlâna, and the […]

Konya Science Center, or Konya Bilim Merkezi, is a large interactive science center in Büyükkayacık, Selçuklu, at Ankara Caddesi No: 292, about 20 kilometers northwest of central Konya’s best-known Seljuk and Mevlevi monuments. It is worth visiting because it is not a conventional museum of objects behind glass. It is a hands-on public learning institution […]

Mevlana Museum (Mevlâna Müzesi) is one of the most important spiritual and cultural museums in Türkiye and the single most significant place to visit in Konya for travelers interested in Rumi, Sufism, Islamic heritage, and the history of the Mevlevi order. Located in the heart of the city in Karatay, the museum is centered on […]

Atop a limestone hillside roughly 8 km northwest of Konya’s city center lies the village of Sille Subaşı, formally a neighbourhood of the Selçuklu district. Far from a modern suburb, Sille Subaşı feels like a quaint hamlet frozen in time. Its cobblestone alleys and whitewashed stone houses — many crowned by enclosed wooden balconies and […]

Lake Beyşehir lies in central Anatolia (Konya Province) at about 1,120 m above sea level. Encompassing roughly 650 km² of open water, it is Turkey’s largest freshwater lake and the third-largest overall. In 1993 the surrounding lake basin was declared a national park (Beyşehir Gölü Milli Parkı), encompassing some 86,855 ha to protect its forests, wetlands and cultural […]

Located in the Taurus Mountains of Central Anatolia, Derebucak Çamlık Caves National Park occupies a rugged enclave of Konya Province in south-central Turkey. The park spans approximately 1,147 hectares (11.47 km²) and protects a cluster of 13 karst caves and sinkholes in the Çamlık (Pine Grove) area of Derebucak district. Officially established on 7 June […]