Mersin
Mersin is a large city and port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey.
Mersin is a large city and port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of the Mersin Province. It is made up of four district governorates, each having its own municipality: Akdeniz, Mezitli, Toroslar and Yenişehir.
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Worth seeing in and around Mersin
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mersin Arena
The Mersin Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Mersin, Turkey. Completed in 2013, it was the new home ground for Mersin İdman Yurdu, replacing the old Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium.
8.4 km · Multipurpose stadium, Mersin · Wikipedia - 02Muğdat Mosque
Muğdat Mosque is a mosque in Mersin, Turkey. It is named after Miqdad ibn Aswad, one of the early Muslims.
2.7 km · mosque in Turkey · Wikipedia - 03Mufti-Jami Mosque
Müftü Mosque is a historic mosque in Mersin, Turkey. The mosque is to the east of Efrenk River, also known as Müftü River referring to the mosque.
1.2 km · historic mosque in Mersin, Turkey · Wikipedia - 04Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium
Tevfik Sırrı Gür Stadium was a sports center in Mersin, located at Mediterranean coast of Turkey. It is the former home of Mersin İdmanyurdu.
1.3 km · Turkish football stadium · Wikipedia - 05Mersin Catholic Church
The Co-Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua also St.
1 km · church building in Mersin Province, Turkey · Wikipedia - 06Old Mosque, Mersin
Old Mosque is mosque in Mersin, Turkey.
500 m · mosque in Mersin, Turkey · Wikipedia - 07Mersin University
Mersin University is a public university, built in 1992 in Mersin Province, Turkey. It has about 39,000 students, 1,813 academic staff, and a number of foreign and guest academic staff.
9.1 km · state university in Mersin, Turkey · Wikipedia - 08Atatürk Park
Atatürk Park is a public park in Mersin, Turkey.
300 m · park in Mersin, Turkey · Wikipedia - 09Mertim
Mertim, an acronym for Mersin Ticaret Merkezi, is a 176.8 m, 52-floor skyscraper in Mersin, Turkey. It was the tallest building in Turkey between 1990 and 2000, until the completion of the 181.2 m, 52-floor Isbank Tower 1 in Levent, Istanbul.
1.1 km · tallest building in Mersin, Turkey · Wikipedia - 10Grand Mosque of Mersin
Mersin Grand Mosque is a Grand Mosque in Mersin, Turkey.
300 m · mosque in Mersin, Turkey · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Grand Mosque
First built in 1898 as "New Mosque", it was re-done in the 1970s in a bleak modern style.
- 02St Anthony Catholic Church
- 03Atatürk House Museum
- 04Muğdat Mosque
Huge mosque (capacity 5500) built in the 1980s in traditional style with four minarets, and two more were added in the 2010s.
- 05Yümüktepe
A tell or mound, the heaped-up ruins of 23 layers of occupation from 6300 BC in Neolithic times to about 200 AD.
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Things to do
Beach: Soli 12 km west is the closest, beyond Soli / Pompeiopolis ruins. Through town there's a pleasant waterfront but no beach, as it's reclaimed land. Congress and Exhibition Centre (Kongre ve Sergi Sarayı) is north end of Atatürk Park, 500 m from Grand Mosque. Mersin Cultural Centre is south end of the park at Atatürk Cd 40, and houses the opera and theatre.
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Where to eat
Tantuni is finely minced fried meat and onion wrap. Haslets are offal such as intestines, lung, liver, kidneys, stomach, brain. They may be chopped into meals or made into soup. Cezerye is a mix of carrots, fig and spices, and sometimes nuts. Kerebic is a dough filled with pistachios and topped with vegetarian cream.
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Getting to Mersin
- Airports
- Çukurova (COV), 41 km · Ercan (ECN), 208 km · Nevşehir Kapadokya (NAV), 220 km
- Stations
- Mersin railway station, 1.1 km · Karacailyas railway station, 9.2 km · Tırmıl railway station, 6.1 km · Mersin Marina, 6.2 km
- Tarsus → Mersin25 km · quickest by road, 29 min · ₺47–60
- Nevşehir → Mersin202 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · ₺470–620
- Konya → Mersin224 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · ₺630–840
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mersin
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mersin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTake a dolmuş downtown: this may be included in your bus fare, enquire when booking.
- Get inFrom Tarsus or Adana a dolmuş is slower than an inter-city coach but might bring you to city centre.
- Get inAkgunlerdenizcilik ferries sail daily from Kyrenia in Northern Cyprus.
- Get inThe "Feribot" is the year-round car ferry.
- Get inFerries no longer sail from Syria or Lebanon.
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Next door to Mersin
Mersin is 27 km from Tarsus, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mezitlidistrict of Mersin, south-central Turkey9.7 km
- Soliancient city of Cilicia in modern-day Turkey9.7 km
- Yenişehirdistrict of Mersin, south-central Turkey2.7 km
- Akdenizdistrict of Mersin, south-central Turkey1.5 km
- Toroslardistrict and town in Mersin Province, Turkey2.9 km
- Anchialehistoric city of ancient Cilicia2.6 km