The Yağcılar Han has been restored and is in use as a commercial centre, with a resting place in its courtyard under the shade of a plane tree.
Its building goes back to 1493, and it was an important trading centre in the city's past; the building was made up of oil presses. It stands on a sound stone wall, built in lath-and-plaster with a wooden frame. It is on Semerciler Sokak in the Emirbeyazit quarter.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Muğla as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 10.8 °C in January to 27.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, June, September, October and November; rainfall is heaviest in December (207 mm) and lightest in August (4 mm). Long-term means for 2001-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
