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İzmir

İzmir is a port on the Central Aegean coast of Turkey, known in antiquity as Smyrna. It's the country's third-largest city, with a population of 3. Wikivoyage

Population 4,493,242 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Turkey

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Turkey

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around İzmir. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Izmir Jazz Festival

    March

    Izmir Jazz Festival is in March

  2. İzmir European Jazz Festival

    March

    The İzmir European Jazz Festival, (Turkish: İzmir Avrupa Caz Festivali) is a cultural event held in the first half of every March in İzmir, Turkey.

    Official site Wikipedia

  3. Izmir Marathon

    April

    Izmir Marathon is held in April

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (İzmir); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 1 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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