About 10 kilometers from the heart of Bursa’s city are the foothills of Uludag Mountain, where Cumalikizik is situated. The Ottomans established Bursa as the center of their culture, arts, and way of life after conquering the city and making it their capital. Even after the imperial capital was transferred to Edirne and subsequently Istanbul, the inhabitants of Bursa, particularly those in Cumalikizik, kept the city and its founding-era culture.

Visiting Cumalıkızık is like traveling in time. It takes you a few centuries beyond with its wooden houses with bay windows, stalls where manufacturers display their products in the village square, ethnography museum, historical baths, coffeehouses, and mosques with wooden ceilings. It is unbelievable that a village that was destroyed 15 times and rebuilt 15 times as a result of natural disasters and wars can preserve its own texture. A UNESCO world heritage site, the village attracts many tourists today. It is possible to visit the whole village in a few hours.