Nişanyan Hotel Şirince, Selçuk, İzmir

Nişanyan Hotel A unique hotel in historic village near Ephesus, Turkey. Booking

Comfort and Style Enormous grounds, lots of space, understated elegance. Rooms

Great food Spectacular view, natural ingredients, generous taste. Our Menu

Şirince - Lovely Setting An old and beautiful village high in the Aegean hills. Discover

Nişanyan Hotel

Şirince, Selçuk, İzmir

+90 (232) 898 3208

+90 (533) 304 0933

reserve@nisanyan.com

Why Nişanyan Hotel?

Nisanyan Hotel is one of Turkey's finest hotels, yet it is at heart a simple and friendly sort of place. It offers you beauty and peace, as well as a good dose of elegance.

The grounds are huge, but they make you feel like you own the place by yourself. Set in a rural village, it is only a ten-minute drive from Ephesus, one of Turkey's top travel destinations. It probably serves the best food within 100 miles, though you'd think it is mom and pop cooking.

It has the most intricately detailed interiors of any hotel in the country, yet it manages to feel perfectly spontaneous and casual.

What is it like?

Nişanyan Hotel grew over the years with no discernible plan or logic. There were three historic village houses to start with. To them were added two elegant inns (each with five independent rooms), a half dozen rustic cottages, a vast and complicated garden, a defense tower, a Turkish bath, a swimming pool in white marble, several hundred fruit trees and much else besides. No two units are quite alike. Each reflects the inspiration of the moment and the whim of experimentation.

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Facilities

Swimming Pool

We were inspired by the design of ancient Roman pools. So we wanted to build one for our hotel. The water comes fresh from the mountains, so it's cold in the morning and gets warmer throughout the day. The pool closes near the end of October.

Turkish bath

It’s an old Greek village but the domed, tiled and marble-clad bath is definitely Turkish. You scrub and splash yourself freely in a large, private, overheated space. But sorry, we don’t employ professional attendants.

Tower of Defiance

Our ‘Medieval’ tower was built in the course of a long and painful battle with bureaucratic shortsightedness. Now, in more peaceful times, you can enjoy the valley view from the top while you sip your wine, free of charge, or order a private dinner in fortified solitude.

Experiences

Restaurant

Having traveled a lot, we detest ‘tourist food’. We cook using fresh ingredients. The olive oil and vegetables come from our own gardens. We serve some of the finest privately made wines in the country.

Rich Breakfast

A sumptuous breakfast is served throughout the day. A vast array of fine cheeses, homemade sweets and fresh pastries is designed to defeat your diet. And we make good filter coffee, a rarity in Turkey.

Weddings & Gatherings

There is no better place this side of the world to organize a wedding that will be remembered for ages, or to get together all those relatives spread around the world. We help you with minimum fuss and a lot of experience.

Excursions

Şirince

Formerly a Greek village under the Ottoman Empire, Şirince preserves much of its historic architecture – sort of – intact. It is surrounded by a glorious countryside of vineyards and forested hills. Tourism has turned the main street into souvenir-alley, but Nişanyan Hotel is high enough on the hill to stay almost unaffected.

Ephesus and All That

Ephesus, possibly the top Ancient site and sight in Turkey, is a 12-kilometer drive from the hotel. It is not to be missed. But we find our guests fall in deeper love with the two other major sites in the area, Priene and the Temple of Apollo at Didyma.

Mathematics Village and Theatre College

MV is an altogether unique educational institute where mathematicians and students from around the world work freely in a rural setting. TC is a summer camp for the finest theater people of the country. Both were designed and built by Sevan Nişanyan. They are at the other end of Şirince, about 2 kms. from the hotel.

Ottoman Dining

Müj and our team are excited to recreate and relish the rich flavors and delightful surprises that nourished the Anatolian palate, from our history's street food all the way to its stately dinners. So, join us as we rediscover the meaning of sweet and of savor, of cuisine before the invention of tomatoes, of traditions inherited by countless ethnicities as we delve into the eccentric world of Ottoman cooking.

Sevan Nişanyan and Müjde Tönbekici were for many years celebrated as the co-authors of the annual Little Hotel Book, the Bible of Turkey’s small and unusual hotels. Sevan is also a linguist, author of three enormous tomes on etymology and Turkish place names, an architect of sorts, and a political troublemaker. Having fallen foul of the current Turkish régime, he now lives in exile.
Meanwhile Müjde has moved on to new fame as a cooking guru and social media celebrity.
İris Nişanyan Vural, their daughter, now runs the hotel. She studied at the Swiss International School for Tourism and Hospitality. She is married to Kaan and has one young child.