The fountains of Mardin work off a system worth understanding: water collected by the drip method in tunnels cut into the rocks below the castle runs through channels down to the fountains, and each quarter has a fountain of its own. The fountains are classified by the source their water comes from — salty, plain and so on.
The water of the Ceviz fountain is sweet. It is in the Savurkapı quarter: from the Artuklu caravanserai on 1. Cadde, continue about 100 metres to the south-east.
Getting there
- Access
- On 1. Cadde, about a hundred metres south-east of the Artuklu caravanserai.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Mardin as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3.1 °C in January to 29.9 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May and October; rainfall is heaviest in January (114 mm) and lightest in August (2 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
