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Gaziantep Museums, Mosques and Cultural Heritage

Gaziantep Museums, Mosques and Cultural Heritage

Gaziantep · Turkey

14 stops7.5 km10 h 19 min
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Gaziantep by following a focused sequence of museums, a castle, a place of worship, and mosques. You will encounter Zeugma mosaics, city and culinary collections, panorama and bath-house interpretation, national-struggle history, and a museum devoted to games and toys. The route is worth taking for the way its varied stops connect Gaziantep’s visual culture, local identity, religious architecture, and everyday traditions.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Zeugma Mosaic Museum

    Zeugma Mosaic Museum

    A museum built around two-thousand-year-old mosaics, including the famous Gypsy Girl.

  2. Gaziantep Archeology Museum

    Gaziantep Archeology Museum

    A museum stop for the city’s contested past, from Antiochia ad Taurum to Ottoman Aintab.

  3. Panorama 25 Aralık Gaziantep Savunması Kahramanlık Panoraması ve Müzesi

    Panorama 25 Aralık Gaziantep Savunması Kahramanlık Panoraması ve Müzesi

    Panorama Müzesi is a museum in Gaziantep, Turkey.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Gaziantep Hamam Museum

    Gaziantep Hamam Museum

    A sixteenth-century bath where Ottoman bathing culture meets Gaziantep’s Jewish ritual history.

  6. Gaziantep Emine Göğüş Culinary Museum

    Gaziantep Emine Göğüş Culinary Museum

    A culinary museum where Gaziantep’s long, contested history meets its food traditions.

  7. Gaziantep Castle

    Gaziantep Castle

    A hilltop castle with an unknown beginning, twelve towers, and a museum of Gaziantep’s defence.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.