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The Black Sea is a region that measures itself less by its coast than by altitude and rain. Highlands buried in mist, steep green valleys and monastery paths cut into rock appear as you move inland from the shore. Nowhere else is the green so dark or the water so plentiful.
What sets the region apart is the vertical character of its nature; within a few hours you can climb from the seashore to a highland above the clouds. Content for the Black Sea is still in preparation; the places below show the direction of the work to come.
Places in this region
7 places
Amasra
In Bartın, a walled historic Black Sea harbour town set on a peninsula that divides two coves.
Ayder Highland
In Rize, at the foot of the Kaçkars, a Black Sea highland known for misty forests, waterfalls and a hot spring.
The Kaçkar Mountains
Behind the eastern Black Sea coast, a glaciated range approaching 3,900 m: timber highland settlements, glacial lakes, and the shortest and greenest mountain season in Türkiye.
Safranbolu
In the western Black Sea hills, a caravan-route town whose entire Ottoman fabric survives intact: timber mansions with projecting bays, a working bazaar, and the saffron it is named after.
Sümela Monastery
A monastery carved into a sheer cliff face in the Altındere Valley, rising out of the mist.
Uzungöl
Inland from Trabzon, a lake formed when a landslide dammed a valley: still water ringed by steep spruce forest, with morning mist sitting on the surface.
Yedigöller National Park
North of Bolu, seven small landslide-dammed lakes inside a mixed deciduous forest — the best-known place in Türkiye to see autumn colour.
Coming next
in preparationThese places are not published yet. Work on this region continues next.
- Sümela
- Uzungöl
- Ayder
- Amasra