Museum
Housed inside Nilüfer Hatun imaret a social security instution of the past which provided free food for the poor, built in 14th century. There are also some marble sarcographi, columns, and columnheads dating back to Roman and Byzantine times in its yard.
Green Mosque
Built in early 14th century, this mosque with its impressive minaret tower covered with green-turquoise-blue mosaics and tiles thatâs where the name of the mosque comes from looks more like earlier Seljuk edifices rather than Ottoman mosques.
Esrefzade Mosque
A recently built 2007 neighbourhood mosque with an ancient minaret tower; when it was constructed is not exactly known, but likely 16th century decorated with green tiles, in a similar fashion with the one of the Green Mosque, except that the tiles of this one are far less showy than those of the Green Mosque. So, if you have just started your trip around the town and come across with this one first, donât be disappointed and confuse it with Green Mosque.
Candarlioglu Mosque
Another recently built 1996 small mosque. An ordinary building with nothing fascinating except that itâs mostly coated with blue/green tiles all over its exterior walls, making a quite pleasant sight. Itâs directly on the street and a bit hidden from view by the surrounding multi-story buildings on both sides, so for not passing-by without noticing it, watch the left side of the street while walking.
Hagia Sophia
While much smaller in size compared with the cathedral of the same name in Istanbul, this rectangular, red brick building built in typical Byzantine style, holds as much historical importance, if not more, as itâs the site of the seventh ecumenical council of Christianity i.e. Second Council of Nicaea, in 787. Located in a pleasant small park, the edifice was converted to a mosque in the early days of Ottoman Empire, and after suffering from a fire during the turmoil of the 1920s, the place laid in a semi-ruinous state for more than eight decades. After the long-awaited restoration finally finished, it has been silently re-dedicated as a mosque by the current Islamist government in 2011, much to the dismay of architectural conservationists, tourism professionals, and many others, who hoped to see it turned into a museum in the fashion of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia.
City Walls
The town is still mostly enclosed by ancient walls, if partially a bit weary. You can also come across with some slowly crumbling towers here and there. Istanbul Gate northern gate and Lefke Gate the eastern one are more or less still completely intact and are quite beautiful. Just outside the Lefke Gate is an ancient aquaduct running for some hundreds of metres and eventually disappearing in the fields out of town.