Erzurum often hosts sports events, as well as festivals designed to draw the attention of tourists to winter sports.

A trip to Erzurum can be planned in such a way that in December you can visit the colorful Winter Festival (Erzurum Winter Fest).

In January, travelers will plunge into the world of extreme sports by visiting the International Ice Climbing Festival.

A trip to Erzurum will be remembered by a visit to the religious school Cifte Minareli Medrese (Cifte Minareli Medrese) – an outstanding monument of medieval Seljuk architecture of the 13th century. The school building attracts attention with 2 corrugated twin minarets.

An interesting architectural structure is the Tashkhany caravanserai (Rustem Pasha Caravanserai) – a two-story building built in the 16th century, which used to house merchants and travelers, and nowadays there is an indoor market.

On the main street of the city, Cumhuriyet street, many religious shrines are concentrated, visiting which is one of the vacation points in Erzurum. The most popular spiritual attractions are the Ulu Mosque, made of hewn stone, the Ottoman Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha Mosque, the small Cafariye Mosque and the Ibrahim Pasha Mosque..

Fans of educational recreation should look into the city museums. Vacationers will visit the Ethnographic Museum (Yakutiye Medresesi), which presents exhibitions of ancient weapons, clothes and accessories of dervishes. Tourists will remember a trip to the Erzurum Archeological Museum, where you can see finds from the ancient Greek and Roman periods, as well as a large collection of ancient coins.

Fans of green tourism are recommended to go on a trip to natural attractions in the vicinity of Erzurum. In addition to the famous Palandoken mountain, vacationers can see the picturesque Tortum Lake and Tortum Waterfall with a 48-meter cascade.

Like every Turkish city, Erzurum boasts a large number of colorful oriental bazaars, large shopping centers and cozy shops offering various souvenirs and craftsmen’s products.

Shopping lovers on vacation in Erzurum should look into the Erzurum Alisveris Merkezi and Haspark Avm shopping centers, as well as visit the Covered Bazaar and Tashkhany caravanserai markets, where you can buy jewelry and obsidian jewelry at the best prices. As souvenirs from the trip, tourists usually bring stone products, ceramics, leather products and traditional oriental clothing.

For those wishing to combine a vacation with a general health improvement, we recommend visiting the Pasinler Mineral waterbaths, a well-known center for healing thermal mineral waters rich in hydrogen sulfide and iodine. Mineral water “Pasinlera” treats diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, musculoskeletal system and many other diseases.