A Foodie’s Guide to Sanliurfa’s Balikligol
Şanlıurfa is the food capital of the southeast — one of the great culinary cities of Turkey — and Balıklıgöl sits at its heart.

Şanlıurfa is the food capital of the southeast — one of the great culinary cities of Turkey — and Balıklıgöl sits at its heart.

Balıklıgöl is the heart of the city of prophets, and most visitors follow a well-worn circuit — the main pool, the mosque, and the photograph from the edge.

Balıklıgöl is one of the most affordable great sites in Turkey — the sacred pool and the mosques are free, the old town is free to wander, and the city is a working place of the southeast with honest prices.

Şanlıurfa is the food capital of the southeast — one of the great culinary cities of Turkey — and Balıklıgöl sits at its heart.

Balıklıgöl is the heart of the city of prophets, and the choice of where to stay is essentially a choice of position around that heart: the old town near the pool, with the sacred site and the lanes at the door…

Balıklıgöl is the heart of the city of prophets, and the list of things to do around it is short, deep, and centered on the sacred pool and its world.

Two days around Balıklıgöl is enough to feel the sacred pool and the city of prophets properly, and to reach the region’s great wonders — and to leave with the sense of a place where faith and history meet.

Balıklıgöl — the “Pool of Sacred Fish” — is the heart of Şanlıurfa and one of the most atmospheric places in the southeast of Turkey.
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