サムスン周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ10

I stayed in Samsun for 2 nights after the exhausting bike tour through Turkey. Great bazaar. Beautiful promenade and a fast food giant with veggie burgers 🤓

Take the service road to avoid three short tunnels near Havza. It’s a nice quiet road with some small towns and abandoned buildings. Lots of roaming dogs, none of them chased me, some barked.

Less than 300 km as the crow flies from Crimea, from the pier (iskele) of Samsun it is possible to observe the expanse of the Black Sea, apparently larger than it really is.

The Latin Catholic Church of Samsung, named after the “Mater Dolorosa”, was built by the Italian Capuchins in 1845.

The recent renovation of the seafront and the square in front of the İskele allows you to take a nice walk along the Black Sea.

Samsung is located approximately halfway along the Turkish Black Sea coast. Throughout history, Samsun has always been a maritime city but only piers served as ports until the 20th century. Although an agreement was made with the British in 1910 to build the city's port, this project could not be realized due to the outbreak of the First World War. Construction only began in 1953, and the port was opened to traffic in 1963, while construction was still ongoing. In 1990 an industrial dock was added to the port. In recent decades, tourism development has also been attempted, but this was hindered by the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 which made navigation in the entire Black Sea dangerous.

In the evening you can take a nice stroll

Historical panel of Mustafa kemal Ataturk