Experience Bursa like you know someone here.

Bursa's dish, eaten in Bursa: sliced döner on pide, tomato sauce, yogurt, and butter poured on at the table.

A 700-year-old Ottoman village on the mountain's foot — cobbled lanes, timber houses, and the longest breakfast of your week.

Twenty domes, a silk caravanserai with tea in the courtyard, and a covered bazaar that still sells things people need — the Ottoman capital in one walk.

Turquoise tiles on a hill above the Gökdere, then a bridge with shops built on it — the prettiest corner of old Bursa.

Tea on the terrace where the empire's founders are buried, the whole plain below and Uludağ turning pink behind you.

From a city street to alpine forest in half an hour — nearly nine kilometres of gondola line, and a picnic at the top.

Bursa's port town on the Marmara — a long promenade, fish by the water, and the sea bus that makes Istanbul a day trip.

Hot mineral water that sultans came for — in a 1385 bath under a dome, a short bus ride from the center.