Amasra is a district of Bartın province in the Western Black Sea Region. It has attracted attention with the increase in tourism potential in recent years.

Amasra, which has a unique visual beauty with a promontory stretching towards the sea, two bays that serve as a sheltered harbor on both sides of the promontory and independent islands connected to the mainland, has both 3000 years of history, local arts based on charm and fishing, and the surrounding forest It is one of the places worth seeing with its areas. Amasra still contributes to tourism with its original fish restaurants, clean mid-size hotels and numerous house pensions.

The City where the late Baris Stream was born.

AMASRA CASTLE

Amasra Castle was built for the first time in the Roman period, and the walls that stand today were built during the Byzantine period. M.S. In the 14th and 15th centuries, front walls and doors were built by the Genoese and were better defended. The walls surround the two island masses consisting of Boztepe and Zindan districts, and these two islands are connected to each other, built in the Roman period called Kemer. The walls were built with large blocks of stones and fortified with towers in the form of a castle. Amasra castle is one of the important ruins that reflect the medieval atmosphere to the present day.

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