Kayseri
Kayseri is a large city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri province.
Historically known as Caesarea, it has been the historical capital of Cappadocia since ancient times. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is composed of five districts: the two central districts of Kocasinan and Melikgazi, and since 2004, also outlying Hacılar, İncesu, and Talas.
Getting to Kayseri
- 01Kayseri Erkilet Airport
Flights from Istanbul take 80 min: Turkish Airlines fly every two hours from IST and twice a day from SAW, and Pegasus have four flights daily from SAW.
- 02Kayseri
Worth seeing
The clocktower stands at the main city crossroads at the north foot of the castle.
Things to do
Football: Kayserispor were relegated in 2026 and now play soccer in TFF 1. Lig, the second top tier. Their Kadir Has Stadium, sponsored as RHG Enertürk Enerji Stadium (capacity 32,800), is 3 km northwest of town centre. Şirin Aquapark is 5 km east of town on D300. It has cold dirty water and they only open a few of the slides. Mount Erciyes is 15 km south of town, a volcano of 3917 m.
Where to eat
Pastırma is a local specialty: dried, salted beef covered with çemen, a caraway paste. It's served as a spicy starter, as a component of main dishes, or as stuffing for börek. Elmacıoğlu İskender Kebap, Millet Cd 5 (southeast foot of castle),. Daily 08:30-22:00.
Getting around Kayseri the local way
- Get inThey continue east to Sivas (another 4 hours) then diverge: via Malatya and Elazığ to Tatvan (Vangölü Ekspresi), with dolmus connections to Van, for the train to Tabriz and Tehran.
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