Illustration of Hatay Archaeological Museum, Hatay

2 Days in Hatay: A Day-by-Day Itinerary

Routes

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The banner is an illustration of Hatay Archaeological Museum, one of the stops on this route, not a photograph.

This route is not an official itinerary; it is a suggestion compiled from sourced records in this province. Each stop has its own page with its own sources.

Travel times between stops are not shown. Where both stops have coordinates, the straight-line distance between them is given and labelled as such.

Our compilation for Hatay, not an official route.

Antakya has the city museum and the Hatay Archaeological Museum.

On the coast, Arsuz lies at the southern end.

Day 1

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Museums and palacesAntakya
Hatay Archaeological Museum
The Hatay Archaeological Museum is in Antakya. Its new building, opened on 28 December 2014, gave it the largest mosaic display area in the world.
<1 km as the crow flies
2
Museums and palacesAntakya
Hatay City Museum
Excavation in Hatay began in 1932. The work Princeton University carried out between 1932 and 1939 brought up the mosaics that became the real wealth of the museum here, together with those found at Harbiye, Narlıca, Güzelburç and Samandağ around the centre at Antakya. Those…
34 km as the crow flies
3
Castles, old quarters and historic buildingsArsuz
Arsuz
Arsuz sits on a strip of coast between the Amanos mountains and the Mediterranean, on a peninsula reaching into one of the finer bays of that sea. Clean water and fine sand have made it a tourism centre for the region, and the surroundings hold high pasture, springs, hunting…

Day 2

4
Nature and national parksErzin
Şahin Hill Nature Park
Şahin Tepesi Tabiat Parkı covers 90.7 hectares in the Erzin district of Hatay, declared on 15 May 2018, with Osmaniye to its north, Adana to its west and Dörtyol to its south-east.
9 km as the crow flies
5
Nature and national parksErzin
Tekkoz Kengerli Düz Nature Conservation Area
Tekkoz Kengerlidüz is a nature conservation area of 2,425 dönüm made up of two separate parts in two provinces: Tekkoz lies within the Erzin district of Hatay, and Kengerlidüz within the central district of Osmaniye.
27 km as the crow flies
6
Nature and national parksHassa
Hassa Lav Tüpü Caves Natural Monument
The Hassa lava tube caves are a natural monument covering 1,189 hectares at the Koruhöyük locality in the Hassa district of Hatay — an unusually large area for a natural monument. The name describes what formed them: tubes left as volcanic lava cooled over time. Three large…

Sources

General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks (opens in a new tab)
Ministry of Culture and Tourism (opens in a new tab)
Ministry of Culture and Tourism (opens in a new tab)
General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks (opens in a new tab)
Wikipedia contributors, “Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi” (opens in a new tab)secondary sourcesource text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks (opens in a new tab)

This route is not an official itinerary; it is a suggestion compiled from sourced records in this province. Each stop has its own page with its own sources.

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2 Days in Hatay: A Day-by-Day Itinerary

Day 1

Hatay Archaeological Museum

Hatay City Museum

Arsuz

Day 2

Şahin Hill Nature Park

Tekkoz Kengerli Düz Nature Conservation Area

Hassa Lav Tüpü Caves Natural Monument

Sources