Our compilation for Siirt, not an official route, and it is unusually tight: most of it lies within a short radius of the city.
Tillo holds a group close enough together to walk between. The tomb of İsmail Fakirullah, built in the eighteenth century by his student İbrahim Hakkı of Erzurum, was added to UNESCO's Tentative List in 2015, and a mechanism inside it throws the light of the morning sun onto the cenotaph for a few minutes on two days of the year — it lost that function in a restoration and was later made to work again. On a hill outside the town is the retreat of Zemzem-ül Hassa, known for its dome, and the district's nature park lies on a valley slope just above the centre.
In the city itself, the Great Mosque of 1129 shows its repairs plainly in its outer walls, and its northern and southern halves are built quite differently from one another. The Botan valley, made a national park in 2019, runs through the central, Tillo and Eruh districts; part of the historic Silk Road passes along it.
Baykan, north-west of the rest, is the outlier: the tomb of Veysel Karani forms a complex with the mosque beside it, and the place was already being written about by geographers in the tenth century. It is far enough out to be its own outing. What each place is, and who says so, is on its own page.
