The Soğanlı Botanical Park in Bursa adjoins the city zoo and covers 400 donums. It is open to botanical research and scientific work and has been a first-degree conservation area since it was founded in 1998.
It is laid out in sections — a Japanese garden, a French garden, an English garden, a rose garden, a rock garden, a garden of scented plants, a garden of shaped plants — and holds 150 species of tree, 27 kinds of rose, 76 species of shrub and 20 species of ground cover. There is also a section modelled on the Bursa mansions of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, which serves as a hotel and restaurant, along with running and walking paths, sports grounds, cycle tracks, children's playgrounds, a model car track, exercise equipment and an artificial lake. Buses from the city centre to the Soğanlı district serve the park.
Getting there
- Access
- The park is beside the zoo on the western ring road of Bursa; buses run there from the city centre to Soğanlı.
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).
