An Ottoman market town preserved almost intact, with timber-framed mansions, a caravanserai and saffron in the fields.
Cobbled lanes of whitewashed, timber-framed mansions, craft workshops and coffee houses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A seventeenth-century caravanserai, now a hotel, and a working Ottoman bath next door.
A restored house museum showing how a wealthy Ottoman family lived, with separate quarters for men and women.
The viewpoint above the old town, best in the late afternoon when the roofs turn gold.
An Ottoman aqueduct across a gorge with a glass viewing platform, ten minutes from town.
A village of mansions even older than Safranbolu’s, 15 kilometres east, with a laundry house and a working mosque.
Safranbolu is named for its saffron; shops sell it along with saffron Turkish delight and a local baklava.
A long show cave in the hills north of town.
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