Cay Attractions

The town of Çay occupies a verdant location on the southeast edge of the Afyon Ovasi not far from Eber Gölü (967m/3,173ft). Known in ancient times as Julia Ipsus, it was here in 301 B.C. that the Macedonian Antigonus was killed in a power struggle between the diodochi. Outside the town there is an old bridge with 40 arches. Also worth seeing is the Seljuk Tas Camii (1278) with its fountain, richly ornamented portal and ruins of a domed medrese (13th century tiles). Of the very neglected caravanserai from the same period only the hall and portal have survived.