Kurşunlu Manastırı lies about 10 kilometres from Davutlar in Aydın. The provincial directorate estimates it to be an eleventh-century Byzantine building rather than stating it.
What survives is a full monastic plan: refectory, cellar, kitchen, monks' cells, infirmary, a chapel, a cemetery, the monastery walls with their vaulted undercroft, and defence rooms.
The frescoes on the chapel ceiling are described in two layers. From the iconoclast period come symbolic and geometric motifs; from the second half of the ninth century, after that period, come depictions of religious events or figures.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Aydın as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.2 °C in January to 28.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (126 mm) and lightest in August (6 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
