Sümela Monastery
Trabzon
Cornucopia’s online guide
The Eastern Black Sea
The mountains between Samsun and Hopa trap moisture-heavy sea air, creating a greeen fringe along this alpine corner of Turkey. The rural architecture is often compared to that of Central Europe, but here you’ll also find Byzantine churches and monasteries galore near Trabzon, tea fields in Rize and the Turkish equivalent of bagpipes in the Kaçkar mountains. Driving inland from Trabzon you come to Bayburt, an area almost unexplored by tourists but home to plenty of historic attractions and surely one of the most remote contemporary art museums in the world.
Sights
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Trabzon Hagia Sophia
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Santa Maria, Trabzon
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ishan
The Eastern Black Sea
Art & Museums
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Trabzon Atatürk Kültür Merkezi
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Baksı Museum
Bayburt
Reading List
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Wrestling with Life in the Mountains
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Four Walks in the Kaçkars
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The Kaçkar -
Architecture in Northeastern Anatolia -
Rural Architecture of the Eastern Black Sea Region -
Black Sea -
Dark view of the Black Sea
(Cornucopia 24) -
Ups and Downs along the Black Sea -
The sound of trance
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The Flutterby Ball
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Peak Performance
(Cornucopia 28)
