The Vecihi gate at Sapanca is counted among the surviving works of Ottoman architecture. Nothing about it is put forward as established: it is said to have been built by Mimar Sinan, and it is related that the historic Silk Road passed by the spot where it stands.
It is 17 kilometres from the city centre and is reached by city transport.
Getting there
- Access
- Seventeen kilometres from the city centre; city transport reaches it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sakarya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (106 mm) and lightest in August (48 mm). Long-term means for 1951-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
