Things to Do in Hatay: Places and Attractions

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Habib-i Nejjar Mosque is a historic mosque in Antakya, Hatay Province, Turkey named after Habib the Carpenter. The mosque is to the east of Orontes River. It was severely damaged by earthquakes in February 2023.

Historic & Cultural

Tell Mahmutlu is a historic site located in the Kırıkhan district of Hatay. Hatay has been home to numerous civilizations throughout history, with settlements dating back to around 9000 BCE. The region has been ruled by various powers, including the Akkadian Empire, Hittites, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, and Ottomans.

Historic & Cultural

Tell Ta'yinat is a low-lying ancient tell on the east bank at the bend of the Orontes River where it flows through the Amuq Valley, in the Hatay province of Mediterranean Turkey about 25 kilometers south east of Antakya, and lies near Tell Atchana, the site of the ancient city of Alalakh. Tell Ta'yinat has been proposed as the site of Alalaḫu, inhabited in late 3rd millennium BC, mentioned in Ebla's Palace G archive; and in later times as Kinalua, the capital city of an Iron Age Neo-Hittite kingdom. Among the findings are an Iron Age temple and several 1st millennium BC cuneiform tablets.

Chatal Höyük is a large archaeological site in the eastern part of the Amuq plain in Turkey. It is located in the valley of the Orontes River, and it was inhabited from the late 4th millennium BCE, and until about 500 BC. It was a large town during the time of the Hittite Empire.

Nature & Adventure

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Tell Dhahab Höyüğü is a mound located southeast of Antakya city center, 1.5–2 km southeast of Reyhanlı District, south of Tell el Cüdeyde Höyük. The current name of the mound is Altıntepe Höyüğü. The hill is 200 meters in diameter and 10 meters high. It has been determined that the mound was first settled 9 thousand years ago, in the Neolithic Age.

Tell Judaidah is an archaeological site in Mediterranean Turkey, in the Hatay province. It is one of the largest excavated ancient sites in the Amuq valley, in the plain of Antioch. Settlement at this site ranges from the Neolithic through the Byzantine Period.

Alalakh is an ancient archaeological site approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Antakya in what is now Turkey's Hatay Province. It flourished as an urban settlement in the Middle and Late Bronze Age, c. 2000–1200 BC. The city contained palaces, temples, private houses and fortifications. The remains of Alalakh have formed an extensive mound covering around 22 hectares. In the Late Bronze Age, Alalakh was the capital of the local kingdom of Mukiš.

Historic & Cultural

The Monastery of Saint Simeon Stylites the Younger is a former Christian monastery that lies on a hill roughly 29 kilometres southwest of Antakya and six kilometres to the east of Samandağ, in the southernmost Turkish province of Hatay. The site is extensive but the monastery buildings are in ruins.

Historic & Cultural

Monastery of Saint Barlaam is a 10th-century Georgian monastery in Antioch, modern-day Turkey's Hatay Province. During the Seleucid and the Roman era there existed a Doric temple. In the 4th century, St.

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural

Historic & Cultural