The courtyard at Camiyanı in the Bayır neighbourhood of Marmaris holds three things at once: the Bayır mosque, a coffee house called Çınaraltı, and two separate natural monuments — a cypress and the plane tree that gives the courtyard its character. Shops and houses stand around it and along the street.
The plane was declared a natural monument on 21 February 1995. The Directorate General of Nature Conservation and National Parks puts its age at around 1,900 years. The tree is 35 metres tall and 2.80 metres in diameter, and the protected area around it is 0.15 hectares.
What visitors actually do here is sit. The coffee house serves under the branches, and the directorate's own account of the place comes down to a cup of coffee taken beneath a canopy nineteen centuries old. Stated capacity is 50 visitors.
From Marmaris bus station, public transport lines 10-13 and 10-5 run to Bayır.
- Designated
- 21.02.1995
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:00 - 21:00
When to go
- Climate
- Across Muğla as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 10.8 °C in January to 27.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, June, September, October and November; rainfall is heaviest in December (207 mm) and lightest in August (4 mm). Long-term means for 2001-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
