What is worth coming for at Zey lies about a kilometre south of the village: on the high parts of the rock masses that close in a narrow valley from both sides are twelve chamber tombs, two stepped altars and a grape-pressing basin.
These monuments are original examples of Phrygian rock art, and they belonged to the Zey castle settlement south of the area. The village itself is in the Sivrihisar district of Eskişehir, built on a rocky slope on the northern skirts of the Sivrihisar mountains.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Eskişehir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.2 °C in January to 22.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (44 mm) and lightest in August (11 mm). Long-term means for 1991-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
