The dome over the hot room of the Hoşap inner castle bath has fallen. What remains is small and plain: a cool room under a barrel vault, the hot room, and the furnace.
It was a bath for the bey's own use, built in 1643 together with the inner castle at Hoşap, and it stands in the viewing pavilion there. Hoşap is in the Gürpinar district of Van.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Van as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -3 °C in January to 22.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (55 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1939-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
