Zeytin Yolu

About Zeytin Yolu

Zeytin Yolu, the Olive Road, is a walking route at Sığacık in the Seferihisar district that brings together natural and cultural heritage. Walkers are accompanied along the way by olive trees that are hundreds of years old and by terebinth (menengiç) trees, which also reflect the farming past of the area. Tangerine groves and other farmland line the route, carrying the traces of traditional production on the fertile soil of Seferihisar, so a walk here is as much about local agricultural culture as about the landscape. Visit İzmir lists the Sığacık section as a walking path managed by Seferihisar Municipality. The wider olive route The Sığacık path is part of a longer olive-themed route described by Visit İzmir that runs through the Güzelbahçe, Çeşme, Seferihisar, Menderes and Selçuk districts. Along it you can see monumental olive trees, olive oil workshops and factories, water sources, viewing terraces, olive crushing places and the millstones used to make oil, as well as camping spots, wells, windmills and watermills. The olive route belongs to the Ephesus-Mimas network of walking and cycling routes created by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality across the peninsula. Sığacık itself, with the ancient city of Teos nearby, makes an easy base for the walk.