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Extract from the Bursa Travel Guides:
Draped along the leafy lower slopes of Uludaq, which towers more than 2000m above,
BURSA
- first capital of the Ottoman Empire and the burial place of several sultans - does more justice to its setting than any other Turkish city besides Istanbul. Gathered here are some of the finest early Ottoman monuments in Turkey, in a tidy and appealing city centre.
Flanked by the busy Atatrk Cad, the compact
Koza Parki
, with its fountains, benches, crowds and cafs, is the real heart of Bursa. On the far side looms the
Ulu Camii
, built between 1396 and 1399 by Yaldaram Beyazit I from the pr... read the whole Bursa Travel Guides...
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