Gölyazı

Founded on a peninsula on the edge of Uluabat Lake, the old name of the village is 'Apollonia'. Its foundation dates back to the 6th century BC and was known as 'Apollonia ad Ryndacum' in ancient times.

Gölyazı, located 7 km inland from the 35th kilometer of the Bursa-İzmir highway, is built on a small peninsula consisting of two low hills on the shore of Uluabat Lake.

Gölyazı is a settlement where storks and people live together and is one of the stork-friendly villages within the scope of the “Stork Friendly Villages Project” supported by various public and non-governmental organizations since 2004. Evliya Çelebi (1659) wrote in his travel book about the crayfish, carp and pike fish extracted from the lake, the vineyards, the famous protected area in the region, which has been declared a protected area, as well as a historical mosque and bathhouse with an unknown date of construction, and a 400-year-old plane tree at the beginning of the bridge that connects the town with the peninsula, which is known as the “weeping plane tree” today, is a natural wonder worth seeing.

In the second half of the 19th century, St. Panteleiman Church was restored and opened as a cultural house.