This natural monument is not one tree but eighteen. Eighteen chestnuts stand next to the Gölcük recreation area on the Gölcük plateau in Ödemiş district of İzmir province, and the directorate gives their measurements as ranges: ages of around 500 to 700 years, girths from 5.00 to 9.50 metres, trunk diameters from 1.60 to 3.03 metres, and heights between 10 and 24 metres.
Their branches were pruned by local people in past years, and because of their age most of them have developed hollows in the trunk. The protected ground is 2.5 decares, and the site was declared in 1994.
Capacity is 100 visitors and 100 vehicles.
The plateau is 19 kilometres from Ödemiş town centre and 112 from İzmir Adnan Menderes airport.
- Designated
- 27.09.1994
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 07:00 - 21:00
When to go
- Climate
- Across İzmir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.9 °C in January to 28 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (146 mm) and lightest in July (4 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
