In Erzurum perfectly preserved caravanserai of the sixteenth century, called Rustem Pasha. It is a large building with two floors, which housed merchants and travelers, and was built around 1560 by the architect chief of the empire - Mimar Sinan. Caravanserai - is a kind of inn or traveling palace for viziers, sultans and other important people.

Donator construction was Rustem Pasha - a great in-law of Sultan Suleiman I, who was called by the people "fortunate louse." Rustem Pasha was the Grand Vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent. On his orders she was built like caravanserais in all corners of the Ottoman Empire.

After renovation, carried out in 1972, in a building of the caravanserai was opened hotel with one hundred and fifty places in which there are seventy-nine rooms with bath, hammam and a very spacious courtyard. Reconstruction of the exterior of the building, according to experts, was executed perfectly, but facilities in the rooms themselves are still very far from the currently existing standards.

Currently, about caravanserai is an indoor market of jewelry made from stones and silver, as well as numerous sources of drinking water. This place has been famous for its water. The Euphrates flows as much as three miles from the city, however, there are many fountains. Each of the fountain tin dipper hanging on the chain, and "good Muslims drink and do not praise enough." It seems that there is a long time nothing has changed and woks, and chains.