Tavşan Adası

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Tavşan Adası or Balıkçı Adası is the smallest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, to the southeast of Istanbul, Turkey. It is under the administration of the Adalar district of Istanbul Province. The island has an area of 40 hectares. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 40°49'10"N, 29°6'45"E

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Tavşan Adası – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Museum of the Princes' Islands, Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum, Muhammad Maarifi Mosque, İsmet İnönü House Museum.

2.6 miN
Specialty museum, History museum, Museum
Museum of the Princes' Islands, Büyükada
68 min walk • Museum of the Princes' Islands is a museum on Büyükada of Princes' Islands in İstanbul Province, Turkey dedicated to the past of the Princes' Islands.
4.9 miNW
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum, Istanbul
124 min walk • Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum is a historic house museum dedicated to the writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık in İstanbul, Turkey. The museum is on Burgazada Island of Adalar district in Istanbul Province, one of the Princes' Islands archipelago. It is situated at 40°52′52″N 29°04′03″E.
6.3 miNE
Mosque
Muhammad Maarifi Mosque
160 min walk • Muhammad Maarifi Mosque is a historical mosque in Kartal district of Istanbul, Turkey, which was once a Rifa'i Tekke. The area of the mosque was a khanqah of Rufai order which was built by Muhammad Maarifi since 1818. The khanqah was damaged during the 1894 Istanbul earthquake but was soon restored.
4.2 miN
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
İsmet İnönü House Museum, Istanbul
107 min walk • İsmet İnönü House Museum is a house museum in Istanbul, Turkey. The house is in Heybeliada, the second largest island of the Adalar in İstanbul at 40°52′41″N 29°05′36″E. The house, then known as Mavromatis Mansion, was built in the 19th century.
4.6 miN
Park, Beach
Değirmenburnu Nature Park, Istanbul
117 min walk • Değirmenburnu Nature Park is a nature park in Istanbul Province, Turkey.
4.1 miN
Museum, History museum, Specialty museum
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar Museum, Istanbul
105 min walk • Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar Museum is a historic house museum dedicated to the writer Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar in İstanbul, Turkey. The museum is situated on Heybeliada in Adalar district of Istanbul province, one of the Princes' Islands archipelago at 40°52′37″N 29°05′32″E.
2.9 miN
Historical place
Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage, Büyükada
75 min walk • The Prinkipo Greek Orphanage is a historic 20,000-square-meter wooden building on Büyükada, one of the nine Princes' Islands off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. It is considered the largest wooden building in Europe and second largest in the world. It served as an orphanage from 1903 to 1964.
4 miN
Neighbourhood
Princes' Islands, Istanbul
102 min walk • The Princes' Islands, officially just Adalar; alternatively the Princes' Archipelago; is an archipelago off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. The islands constitute the Adalar district of Istanbul Province.
4.1 miN
Small inhabited island with a monastery
Heybeliada, Istanbul
105 min walk • Heybeliada or Heybeli Ada is the second largest of the Prince Islands in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul. It is officially a neighborhood in the Adalar district of Istanbul, Turkey.
4.9 miNW
Remote island with a museum and ruins
Burgazada, Istanbul
126 min walk • Burgazada, Burgaz Adası, or shortly Burgaz is the third largest of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul, Turkey. It is officially a neighbourhood in the Adalar district of Istanbul. Burgazada is a common setting and even a major theme for writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık, where he also resided.
2.1 miN
Park
Büyükada Nature Park, Büyükada
54 min walk • Büyükada Nature Park is a nature park in Istanbul Province, Turkey. Büyükada is the biggest of the Princes' Islands, a group of nine islands in the Sea of Marmara, in Adalar district southeast of Istanbul Province. An area east of the island was declared a nature park by the Ministry of Environment and Forest in 2011.