What stands at Adilcevaz today is ruins. The castle was built on steep rock at the shore of Lake Van, and it had a tower.
What it once held is known from written records rather than from what survives: the provincial directorate says those records show a mosque named for Süleyman Han, a powder magazine, grain stores, water cisterns, a tower for the military band, and seventy houses inside the walls.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bitlis as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -4.2 °C in January to 23.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (196 mm) and lightest in August (7 mm). Long-term means for 2011-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
