Civil Architecture

Going up from the center of Akçakoca and the ramp behind the hospital, we visit the Upper New District this time.
Unplastered facades are the most prominent feature of the houses, which are mostly two-storey. The houses, whose walls are built with the use of red bricks between wooden carcasses, are enticing you while they are admired with their street exit, wooden bay windows, their location and settlements in the garden. First of all, as soon as you see the picture in your mind, a brainstorming begins. You start to say that this place has nothing less than Safranbolu, Beypazarı, Mudurnu, Taraklı, and then every house you see exhibits beauties that will cause you to produce other projects. Once they were not built inside the castle like houses, then all of them had gardens and their flowers were overflowing due to the care and taste of the inhabitants. Obviously, the vines surrounding the houses, the orchids springing out from the gardens, lilies, roses and all the flowers I don’t know the name of, are happy and happy to be here. Wooden doors, hand-woven curtains, village fresh air, smell, silence and peacefulness, the hospitable and close behavior of the residents. Oh, if there were a few houses here, boutique hotels, if I sat in that garden and had a village breakfast under the tree, if I read my book, I would neither look for the sea, nor the city life. Like every tourist, you start wearing your machine around your neck and wandering the side streets. It begins a haze within you as if you have lived here for years. Sometimes a doorknob, sometimes a tiny room hidden in the attic, sometimes a smiling child increases your film consumption. As you see the cherry trees with their fruits hanging like red earrings on their branches, the honey mulberries falling on the ground, and the abandoned houses, many of which await their unknown fate, you draw one after another. You convince yourself that you can have a holiday away from the sea. The only thing to do is to start somewhere, you leave your mind and heart in the Upper New District, thinking that if one example is made first, then the rest will surely spread, and this happiness will spread.

You feel like I will definitely come here again, bring someone I love and show him. If you say Akçakoca is over, of course not. Now it expands a little more in diameter to the Evliya Mosque Recreation Area, where the monumental plane trees that pass through a stream cover like umbrellas and there is almost no sunny area left. A palette of mills placed on the edge of the stream in the recreation area rotates with the speed of the water. A bridge over the stream, a country restaurant with picnic tables, wooden terraces, a playground, swings and so on. In the far corner of the recreation area, there are the arched rooms of a building that was used as a mint in ancient times, while at another extreme is a concrete mosque built in recent years. Right behind the mosque is the “Eskici Secaaddin Tomb”. Between the engraved tombstones on both ends of the tomb, it rises to the sky along two tall tree trunks. Due to the religious part of the promenade, its visitors also adapt to the environment.

While the beaches of Akçakoca, where green and blue are intertwined, generally welcome those who are overwhelmed by the extreme heat, there are many beauties worth participating in various activities in the district. Those who wish can take nature walks in the forest or see the caves.