Art & Monuments
Bornova's art and monuments
The public art memory of the city through busts, monuments and artworks.
BustFirst Football Pitch
Kazımdirik
In the second half of the 1800s, as the Ottoman Empire's integration with Western civilizations intensified, the Levantine families in Izmir in particular assumed a guiding role, causing Izmir to become acquainted with many firsts in Western civilization and culture. The foremost among these firsts is football. According to the Tercuman Sports Encyclopedia published in 1970 and Turkey's Football...
MansionFirst Ataturk Monument
Kazımdirik
The Ataturk bust located in the garden of Ege University's Computer Engineering Faculty in Bornova holds the distinction of being the first Ataturk monument built in Turkey. This monument is the first and only known monument whose opening ceremony Gazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk personally attended. According to available information, Ataturk never attended the opening of any other monument thereafter. Sari Kosk (Yellow Mansion): Today's Ege University Faculty of Economics and Administrative...
BustHomeros
Erzene
Homeros, an indispensable figure of Western literature, is a figure who, despite being Anatolian, has become universal rather than local. The Iliad and the Odyssey, the epics he compiled, are considered the starting point of Western culture.