Adana

Built in 1998, this huge mosque dominates the skyline with its six minarets, the four inner minarets being 99 m. The interior is richly decorated with calligraphy and Iznik tiles. The mosque was built over a confiscated Armenian cemetery.

Traditional 19th century mansion where Atatürk stayed in 1923, and restored as a museum in 1981. Signage is only in Turkish.

Exhibits and screenings from Turkish cinema history. Best known in the west is Yılmaz Güney (1937-1984) for Yol.

Also known as Ramazanoğlu Mosque, this was built 1513-1541 and extended in a mix of styles. It's the nucleus of a külliye - religious complex - that includes a madrasah and mausoleums, all well-preserved. It was damaged in the earthquake of 1998 but restored by 2004.

Built in 1495, this was a government mansion, which is a polite way of saying it's where the sultans kept their harem. Earlier parts of the building have fallen down. Since 2009 it's been run by the university as a cultural centre.

This was built 1879-82 and is 32 m high, a sturdy brick tower that looks more like a campanile.

Built around 1250 AD as the Surp Hagop (St Jacob) Armenian Church, it became a mosque circa 1380, when the Ottomans wrested the city from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. From 1501 it acquired a külliye - the medrese survives. "Hagop" morphed into Yağup then in the time-poor 19th century got shortened to Yağ, "oil".

This was built in Italianate style as an Armenian Apostolic Church in 1870. After the Armenians were slaughtered or deported in 1915 it was handed over to the Roman Catholics.