Limnades Hotel

Top choice in Western Anatolia


İznik's jazziest place to bed down is this white-and-blue villa fronted by a long terrace with a pool and surrounded by gardens. Inside, furniture in candy pinks, violets and blues, colourful wall murals and flouncy white canopy veils draped over beds create a riotous decor mishmash that all somehow works in its own quirky way. Suites have Jacuzzis and lake-view balconies.

Staff here are eager to help with queries and speak English.


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1. İstanbul Gate

0.22 MILES

İznik's imposing northern gate, part of the fortified city walls, features huge stone carvings of heads facing outwards.

2. Göl Gate

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Only slight remnants remain of this gate that leads to the lake in İznik's Roman-Byzantine fortifications.

3. Aya Sofya

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Originally a great Justinian church, Aya Sofya (Church of the Divine Wisdom) is now a mosque surrounded by a rose garden. The building encompasses ruins…

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Dating from 1332, the centrally located Hacı Özbek Cami is one of İznik's oldest mosques.

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7. İznik Museum

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The restored Şeyh Kutbettin Cami (1492) lies across the road to the south of the İznik Museum.