Uşak

Getting to Uşak

Zafer Airport (KZR IATA), 100 km northeast towards Kütahya, has flights from Istanbul (IST and SAW). A shuttle bus connects with these and runs to Uşak. Adnan Menderes Airport (ADB IATA), 240 km west near Izmir, has a much wider range of destinations. Uşak's own airport is used for flight training and private aviation but no longer has commercial flights.

Worth seeing

1. 01
   Archaeological Museum

   Orhan Dengiz Blv 29 (just north of railway station),.

2. 02
   Atatürk and Ethnography Museum

   Merchant's house used as Turkish military headquarters in 1920-22 when the battlefront with Greece was nearby, and where Atatürk received the surrender of General Nikolaos Trikoupis.

3. 03
   City History Museum

   With your own vehicle, all the outlying sites can be seen in a day, probably in the order below.

4. 04
   Sebaste is 34 km southeast of Uşak

   It's the scrappy ruins of a Roman settlement named in honour of Emperor Augustus.

Things to do

Football: Uşakspor play soccer away down in the amateur leagues. Their home ground is Bir Eylül Stadyumu 200 m west of the Atatürk monument.

Where to eat

İsmet Paşa Cd is the main eating strip. Tarhana is the local delicacy, a thick soup of flour and veg, fermented, dried and grinded to a powder — a predecessor of instant soups. Meydan Döner, İsmet Paşa Cd 81 (facing Atatürk statue). Daily 11:00-21:00. Chain outlet for döner wraps.

1. 01
   Donas

   Fast food chain serving Donas, a sticky and hearty döner wrap.

2. 02
   Çorbacı Dede

   This is the place for late night soups: lentil, chicken or offal, served with toasted bread and a tray of greens.

Getting around Uşak the local way