Black Sea

  • Safranbolu

    Safranbolu is a small town in Karabük province whose old center is one of the best-preserved Ottoman towns in Türkiye. UNESCO inscribed the City of Safranbolu on the World Heritage List in 1994 as a typical Ottoman city that played a key role in the caravan trade. It takes its name from saffron, once grown…

  • Trabzon

    Trabzon is the main city of the eastern Black Sea coast, with a long Byzantine and Ottoman past, a busy harbor and steep green mountains behind it. It is the base for Sümela Monastery, which clings to a cliff face, and for the highland lakes and plateaus above the coast. It is wetter and cooler…