Places to visit in Giresun
4 places from Giresun province are on the map: Giresun Castle & Island, Kümbet & Bektaş Plateaus, Şebinkarahisar, and Tirebolu. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Giresun Castle & Island
Would you believe it if someone told you a fruit took its name from a city? Giresun’s old name is Kerasous, and legend has it that the word for cherry in many languages was born here. The…
See on the map →Kümbet & Bektaş Plateaus
In midsummer the roads climbing from Giresun into the mountains suddenly fill up. Cauldrons, quilts and kemençes in the car trunks; folk songs spilling from the windows; greetings from…
See on the map →Şebinkarahisar
Can a mineral hide in a town’s name? The “şebin” in Şebinkarahisar is said to come from şap, the alum this land has yielded for centuries. Karahisar, the other half of the name, it owes to…
See on the map →Tirebolu
Imagine a stream born in the mountains of Gümüşhane; it threads through narrow gorges, flows past the orchards of Torul and the narrow valley of Doğankent, waters villages, towns and…
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