The Kükürtlü springs lie behind the Kükürtlü garden between the centre of Bursa and Çekirge and are fed from the Bademli Bahçe source. There are seven springs; the water is sulphurous and radioactive and has the same properties, for bathing and for drinking, as the Vakifbahce source, and the Ministry reports that the sulphur water is beneficial for vascular conditions and chronic inflammatory disease. The water temperature runs between 54 and 84 degrees.
The buildings have an imperial history: the men's section was built by Murad I Hüdavendigar and the women's by Bayezid II, with additions made in the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. Know what the place is now, though — it operates today within Uludağ University as the Atatürk Rehabilitation and Research Centre rather than as a public bath. It is in the Kükürtlü quarter of Osmangazi, reached by metro or bus from the centre.
Getting there
- Access
- Reached from central Bursa by metro and bus.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bursa as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 5.4 °C in January to 24.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (99 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
