Sights in Trabzon
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Bazaar District
Pedestrianised Kunduracılar Caddesi leads from Atatürk Alanı to Trabzon's bazaar, located in the Çarşı (Market) quarter. Compared with İstanbul's Grand Bazaar, it's authentic, down to earth and proudly local. Near the restored Çarşı Camii (1839), central Trabzon's largest mosque, is the Taş Han (or Vakıf Han), a single-domed han (caravanserai) constructed around 1647. Trabzon's oldest marketplace, it's full of workshops, stores and cafes – a cool retreat for a çay.
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Atatürk Statue
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Tabakhane Bridge
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Atapark
Next to the Gülbahar Hatun Camii (Mosque Of The Ottomans), the Atapark has a tea garden for refreshments and a reconstructed wooden serander from a village further along the coast.
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Gülbahar Hatun Camii
Selim the Grim, the great Ottoman conqueror of Syria and Egypt, built Gülbahar Hatun Camii (Mosque of the Ottomans, 1514) in honour of his mother, Gülbahar Hatun. Next to it are a tea garden and reconstructed wooden serander (granary). It's a pleasant walk west from the centre over Tabakhane Bridge, with allotments below. Soon after crossing the next bridge, turn left and head towards the Atatürk statue.
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Taş Han
Close to the recently restored Çarşı Camii (Market Mosque), you'll see the Taş Han, a single-domed han (caravanserai) thought to have been constructed around 1647, making it the oldest marketplace in Trabzon. It's now full of workshops and stores.
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Çarşı Camii
Check out the recently restored Çarşı Camii in the lively bazaar district. It's to the west of Atatürk Alanı, in the Çarşı (market) quarter, accessible by the pedestrianised Kunduracılar Caddesi from Atatürk Alanı, which cuts through the tightly-packed streets of the ancient bazaar.
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Boztepe Picnic Place
On the hillside 2km southeast of Atatürk Alanı, Boztepe has fine city and sea views, tea gardens and restaurants. In ancient times, it harboured temples to the Persian sun god Mithra. Later, the Byzantines built churches and monasteries here. Today, it's a top place for a sunset beer and there's live music on summer evenings.
Frequent Boztepe dolmuşes run from near the southeastern end of Atatürk Alanı (TL1.50).
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Trabzon Museum
This Italian-designed mansion, built for a Russian merchant and completed in 1913, briefly hosted Atatürk in 1924. The ornate interiors and original furnishings put most Ottoman re-creations to shame, with high-ceilinged rooms displaying ethnographic and Islamic artefacts, mostly labelled in English. The basement archaeological section also has significant pieces, including a flattened bronze statue of Hermes from local excavations at Tabakhane and some beautiful wooden Byzantine icons.
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Atatürk Villa
Escape the city at the Atatürk Villa, 5km southwest of Atatürk Alanı. Set above Trabzon in a forested neighbourhood, the three-storey white villa has fine views and lovely gardens. Designed in a Black Sea style popular in the Crimea, it was built between 1890 and 1903 for a wealthy Trabzon banking family, and given to Atatürk when he visited in 1924. It's now a museum of Atatürk memorabilia. Don't miss the simple table in the study with a map of the WWI Dardanelles campaign scratched into the wood.
City buses labelled 'Köşk' leave from outside the post office and drop you outside the villa (TL1.25). Don't get out at the stop that says 'Atatürk Köşk 200m'. The actual…
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Aya Sofya Museum
One of Trabzon's star attractions, the Aya Sofya Museum, originally Hagia Sophia (Church of the Divine Wisdom), is 4km west of the centre on a terrace that once held a pagan temple. Built in the late Byzantine period, between 1238 and 1263, the church was clearly influenced by Georgian and Seljuk design, although the marvellous wall paintings and mosaic floors follow the prevailing Constantinople style.
It was converted to a mosque after the conquest in 1461, and later used as an ammunition storage depot and hospital by the Russians, before being fully restored in the 1960s.
Enter through the western entrance into the vaulted narthex to view the best-preserved, vividly…
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