Paşa Çeşmesi Mesire Alanı

About Paşa Çeşmesi Mesire Alanı

Paşa Çeşmesi Mesire Alanı is a forest picnic area around a historic roadside fountain in Duatepe Mahallesi, on the Tire to İncirliova road about 8 to 9 km from the centre of Tire. The General Directorate of Forestry lists Paşaçeşme among the official mesire picnic and recreation areas of İzmir province, and Tire Municipality laid out the grounds around the fountain as a picnic area. The fountain itself dates from September 1927. Its inscription, in both Latin and Ottoman Turkish script, records that it was built by the İzmir governor Kazim Pasa, Kazim Dirik, with help from the provincial administration and Tire Municipality, in memory of the new Tire to Aydın road, and that Tire Municipality restored it in 1961. It is faced in marble, with fluted columns, a raised marble trough, niches for drinking bowls and tile panels, and the decoration is signed by the İzmir painter A. Nazmi. Similar fountains built under the same governor stand in Kemalpaşa. The site has since reopened as Paşa Çeşmesi Restoran ve Mesire Yeri under a private operator, offering a restaurant and barbecue picnic packages with reservations by phone.