Places to visit in Trabzon
7 places from Trabzon province are on the map: Sümela Monastery, Uzungöl, Trabzon & Boztepe, Lake Sera, Hıdırnebi Plateau, Kadıralak Plateau, and 1 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Sümela Monastery
Why would you hang a building on the face of a cliff? Was there no flat ground to be found, or did someone not wish to be found? Sümela’s story, so legend has it, begins with the answer to…
See on the map →Uzungöl
How is a lake born? Some in basins carved by glaciers, some in the mouths of extinct volcanoes, some in hollows where the earth has cracked and sunk… Uzungöl has an altogether different…
See on the map →Trabzon & Boztepe
“Take my camel, dear,” said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass… Rose Macaulay’s novel ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ opens with this sentence and…
See on the map →Lake Sera
What comes to mind first when you hear Akçaabat? Köfte, its famous meatballs, of course… There’s no point denying it; but did you know that just above the hometown of köfte, in a narrow…
See on the map →Hıdırnebi Plateau
It is said that Hızır drank the water of life, gained immortality, and comes to the aid of all in need. Hıdrellez, which heralds the coming of spring, goes back to the day he met İlyas; on…
See on the map →Kadıralak Plateau
“My head foaming clouds, sea inside me and out, / I am a walnut tree in Gülhane Park…” says Nâzım Hikmet. The poet stood in a park in Istanbul; but had he recited these lines on the yaylas…
See on the map →Hamsiköy & Zigana
Hearing its name, “anchovy village,” you look for sea and fish here. Yet Hamsiköy lies far from the coast, at the foot of the Zigana Mountains, in a forest-covered valley… Looking for fish…
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