Denizli City Guide
Located at the Southwest of Anatolia, Denizli is the causeway connecting Aegean, Central Anatolia and Mediterranean Regions. Situated on the caravan routes dividing Anatolia as south and west, the city with its archaic cities, mounds, tumuluses, travertines, thermal springs, is worth to host you. Denizli is famous with its rooster.
Tourist Attractions
Pamukkale (meaning ‘cotton castle' in English) cited in the World Culture Estate List of UNESCO is one of the must sees, even the first, of Denizli. This wonderland getting the city and the world together is 700 meters long and 160 high. The thermal water constituting Pamukkale is also the cause of the existence of travertines. According to the experts, the travertines leading Pamukkale to be a temptation center for thousands of tourists every year are made up of the settling calcium carbonate after the thermal waters containing high rates of hidrocarbonate contacts with the air. The carbonmonoxide and carbondioxide leaving calcium carbonate in the water is decomposed from the water.
You should not miss Pamukkale due to its healing thermal pools, red and white travertines hanging down the hillside.
You should pay a visit to Denizli to contemplate its 14 archaic cities. Among them, Hierapolis Acrchaic City located at the top of Pamukkale, 18 km south from the centrum, is named as Holy City in the literature because of having present many temples and religious structures inside. Likewise, Laodikeia Archaic City placed 16 south of the centrum contains theatres, monumental fountain, stadium, Zeus Temple, a church and assembly bank.
Ataturk and Ethnography Museum placed at Ucanbasi neighbourhood and Hieropolis Archeology Museum (the Roman Bath used as museum since 1984) are the historical and cultural values of the city that you should not make the mistake of leaving the city without experiencing them.
Ak Han Caravansaray and Cardak Han (public house) are the structures on the Sink Road that you should not miss.
Culture & Entertainment
Festivals are the most important fraction of culture in Denizli. There are more than 50 festivals held in the specific terms of the year.
National Amateur Theater Festival (May), International Folk Dances Festival (June), International Chess Tournament (August), Economy and Culture Festival (August), Berry Festival (June), Traditional Chickpeas Festival (July) and a great deal of more cultural events are held at the city.
Leatherworking, weaving and copperworking are the main and pretty old local arts practiced at the city. With its old houses, the city has a special to itself architecture.
Bars, cafes and live music, especially at the centrum, are available in Denizli. The entertainment life of the city is not intense when compared to the big cities of Turkey.
Food & Drink
The traditional cuisine of Denizli is large enough to serve to all the food preferences. Vegetables has a fundamental space concerned with the culinary culture of the city. Aubergine foods are pretty pervasive. Dry aubergine dolma (stuffed vegetable), aubergine gozleme, aubergine kebab, taratorlu borulce salad and ebe gumeci salad are the most famous aubergine dishes.
Tarhana soup, kedi borulce soup, dry borulce soup and ovmac soup are the authentic soups of Denizli.
Tas kapama, meat with vinegar, meat with pea, kuzu kapama (lamb), et (meat) kapama, kol dolma, kumbar dolma and arapasi (chicken meat) are the main meat foods of the city.
Yofka, sipit and bazdırma are kinds of endemic breads.
Shopping
Authentic handlooms of Denizli, especially figured, coloured, silvery, cotton, silky clothings and furnishings weaved at Buldan has world wide famous and are sold in every corner of the city
Kaleici shopping center and Babadaglar shopping mall located at the center of the city offers to you these kinds of textile products, authentic handicrafts and fashionable clothes.
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