Akdamar Island is home to the Church of the Holy Cross. This beautiful 10th century church must be one of the most photographed in eastern Turkey, the elegant proportions of its cruciform shape and po...
Along with the Aya Sofya Atatürk’s villa is Trabzon’s star attraction. Once the home of a wealthy Greek this villa was completed in 1903 and was, after the family had been forced into exile as a resul...
Well worth a visit if you have time intrepid travellers may make their way to the superb remains of the Urartian fortress at Çavuştepe, and the castle at Hoşap. The fort walls at Çavuştepe are the bes...
These hot springs are worth a visit if you have the time, but are not worth a special visit otherwise.
Arguably Trabzon’s star attraction is the church of the Aya Sofya. Built on the site of an ancient temple on a hill overlooking the coast the Church of the Holy Wisdom was completed in 1263. Incorpora...
Van Citadel sits atop a high rock 1.5 km long and 100m high and lying to the outskirts of town. Within the walls of the Citadel is the Sardur Tower which dates from 840 BCE and which has cuneiform ins...
Van Museum may only be small but it does hold a fine collection of Urartian gold jewellery amongst other artefacts from sites such as Patnos, Toprakkale, Cavustepe and Giyimli. There is a display of k...
