The province of Kahramanmaraş is located inside the borders of Eastern Anatolia Region. The province is famous with its peculiar ice cream. Kahramanmaraş has an important tourism potential with its caves, Külliye of Eshab-i Keyf and its plateaus.
How to Get
Kahramanmaraş is located on the east of Mediterranean Region and the province at an important junction location for both highways and railway, connecting the highways coming from south and Mediterranean to eastern and northern regions.
Highway The bus station is 500 meters distant to the city center. The transport to the bus station is possible via shared and commercial taxis.
Bus station tel: (+ 90 - 344) 221 88 82
Highway The Kahramanmaraş railway station provides the connection of the city to the rest of the country.
Railway station tel: (+ 90 - 344) 214 12 04
Air transportation The Kahramanmaraş Airport is at 8 km. distance to the city center. Reaching to the airport is possible via commercial and shared taxis.
Airport tel: (+ 90 - 344) 236 18 97 - 236 07 92
Kahramanmaraş Castle The castle is located on the center of the province over a piled hill. The castle was inhabited and used in the Hittite, Roman and Ottoman periods and had some restorations in various periods.
Hurman Castle The castle is located in the boundaries of the Marabiz village of the Afşin District, over a steep hill which is to the west of Hurman creek. The certain construction date is not known. But it is assumed that the castle was constructed in the Byzantine period, when the construction technique is taken into account. The inner part of the castle contains a water cistern, granary, soldier barracks and a church.
Ceyhan Bridge The bridge is located on the old Kahramanmaraş - Göksun road over the Ceyhan River. It was assumed to be constructed in the 16th century.
Külliye and Mosques
The most important mosques of the Kahramanmaraş Province could be counted as Ulu Mosque, Elbistan Ulu Mosque and Hatuniye Mosque. The Taş Theological School constructed by the Ulu Mosque was dedicated to the daughter of Dulkadirli Alâüddevle Bey.
Eshab-i Kehf (Seven sleepers) Külliye The building group located on a steep hill which is 8 km. west of the Afşin District is from 12th century. This group of buildings are composed of a Mosque, a caravansary, a Ribat and numerous undetermined small structures.
Highlands
Yavşan Plateau The plateau is located on the elevations which are to the south of the Sir dam lake. The plateau is a natural fauna and flora with its rich forest texture, water springs and endemic plantation. The altitude of the plateau reaches up to 1300 meters. The Yavşan plateau is an important source for camping and climate alteration cures.
Başkonuş Plateau Başkonuş plateau is located on the Kahramanmaraş - Andirin highway, in the vicinity of Yenicekale district and the region has a rich forest texture displaying the plateau characteristics. The altitude is l785 meters. There is a deer breeding farm at the Başkonuş plateau. The electric, telephone, road facilities and the environmental arrangement of the region is completed and facilities belonging to the Forest administration (accommodation, gasino and restaurants) are present in the region.
Caves
Eshab-i Keyf Cave The cave is located in the Afşin district. The cave is believed to be the cave in which seven Roman young man had slept for 200 years and than awake.
Döngel Cave The cave is located on the Kahramanmaraş - Kayseri highway. The distance to the city center is 57. Km. The cave and its environ had been inhabited in the prehistoric periods. The Döngel Creek is flowing inside the Döngel cave forming a large waterfall. There is a camp belonging to the Youth and Sports City Directorate nearby the cave.
Bulut Deligi Cave The Bulut Deligi Cave is located southwest of Pazarcik district and is a cave displaying fossil properties and the development of the cave is halted. The cave contains numerous and beautiful stalagmites, stalactites and pillar damlataş formations.
Thermal Springs
Göksun Büyükkizilcik Mineral Water The mineral water spring is located at 16 km. distance to the Büyükkizilcik village of Göksun District. The mineral water is determined to cure the problems of digestion, urethra and kidney systems and also to the skin diseases by the means of bathing.
Ekinözü (Cela) Mineral Water The Ekinözü Mineral Water is 151 km. north of Kahramanmaraş Province and at 20 km. distance to the district center. The waters of the mineral water is known to cure skin, stomach and kidney diseases.
Sports Activities
Hunting Grounds Hunting partridge, freckled partridge, rabbit and wild boar at the mountains surrounding the Kahramanmaraş province center and districts is possible. Hunting quail in the Kahramanmaraş plain during the suitable season is also possible. Hunting wild duck at the lakes and water sources like Gavur lake swamp and Karacasu is another alternative. Fishing trout, electric fish (yayın) and snake fish in the Aksu creek and Ceyhan rivers is possible. There are hunting societies founded at the city center and districts and these societies arrange drive hunts.
Trekking Activities The suitable courses for trekking could be counted as Ayşepinari - Karbasan, Türkmenler - Hacınınoglu, Ilıca - Suçatı, Suçatı - Bulutoglu, Engizek peak, Kahramanmaraş -Başkonuş plateau.
Kahramanmaraş Museum The museum is composed of three main sections. In the archeological findings section, various objects and tools, statuettes, cooked earth and glass pottery and jewelry from the Prehistoric, Early Bronze, Hittite, Iron Age, Roman and Byzantine periods are exhibited. In the Ethnography Section, the local traditional embroidered man and woman clothing, various jewelry, forge embroidered copper pottery, nacre embroidered wooden furniture and frames, silver - nacre embroidered wooden jewel boxes and various battle equipment is exhibited.
Telephone of the Museum: (+ 90 - 344) 223 44 87 - 223 44 88 Open hours to visit: 07.30 - 12.00 / 13.00 - 16.30 Open days to visit: Everyday except Monday
The dominant climate in the Kahramanmaraş province could be stated as terrestrial Mediterranean climate, because of the distance from the sea and the altitude. The summer season is hot and the winter season is cold in the city.