The Trabzon City Guide

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This port city on the Turkey’s eastern Black Sea coast was an impportant link on the Silk Road for many centuries and has been extensirely describedby Marco Polo and other Travellers. Today Trabzon remains a major port giving decess to eastern Turkey, the Caucasus and Iran, and also has an airport used by many tourists attracted to the famous Sumela Monastery and the Kaçkar Mountains in fact, the city itself is of considerable interest, as we will see in this stroll around its historic monuments.