Introducing Bolu Province 8

Bolu hazelnut candy, chocolate, pine honey, cream, butter and famous desserts. Zucchini pancakes pasta unique to the region's business.

Mudurnu'nun palace halva, halva foam, beans Seben'in Göynük'ün sugar apple, grape, Mengen value tadılmaya cheese dishes of the region.

HOW TO GET WHAT Bolu?

TEM highway between Ankara and Istanbul and the D-100 highway passes through Bolu. This is so easy to reach by road, all over the country. The historic and tourist sites around the city, bus and minibus service.

Bolu bus terminat is 1 km away from city center.

Bus Station Tel: (+90-374) 215 37 13

Let Bolu gone WHAT?

Bolu pine cologne, hazelnut candy, Bolu, chocolate, pine honey, cream, butter, zucchini pancakes; Mudurnu'nun palace halva, halva foam, silk Crochet; Gerede leather and copper goods, Göynük'ün sugar beans, hand-woven ; Seben'in apples, grapes, cheese Mengen; Kıbrıscık'ın rice, hand-woven bags and rugs, can be purchased as a gift.

WHAT TO Bolu, which is gone? Do not Leave Without!

Seven Lakes in the fall camp without making FOTOĞRAFğraf,

Abant Lake and other lakes without a walk around,

Goynuk Mudurnu and seeing their homes,

Visiting plateaus of Bolu,

Kartalkaya skiing, paragliding without Abant.

Seben Rock without seeing their homes,

Bolu pine cologne, hazelnut candy, Bolu, chocolate, pine honey, cream, butter, zucchini pancakes; Mudurnu'nun palace halva, halva foam, silk Crochet; Gerede leather and copper goods, Göynük'ün sugar beans, hand-woven ; Seben'in apples, grapes, cheese Mengen; Kıbrıscık'ın rice, hand-woven bags and rugs, buying,

Traditional "Mengen Chefs and Tourism Festival", Dörtdivan Plateau Festivals and Bolu Koroglu Culture Art Tourism Festival, monitoring,

Introducing Bolu Province 7

Aladdin Highlands: 25 km from Bolu. On the southern slopes of the mountain, forest areas are located between. With the green plains, these plateaus are ideal for a picnic in the Forest Management Systems, Aladdin Pond Scout Camp and a dazzling beauty with the exhibit. Camping facilities are also the main plateaus, Değirmenözü, Sarıalan, Golcuk, Ardıçtepe and Upperside Plateau.

At Plateau: Bolu is located behind the north side of the mountains. This plateau is famous for cherries are surrounded by fruit orchards. Every year, festivals are a traditional cherry festival.

Gerede Highlands: Gerede south 1200 - 1500 m. The elevations in these mountains, harvest, and the eastern Koroglu Zorpan Dörtdivan plateaus on the Mountains.

Kıbrısçık Highlands: Koroglu Mountains are found in the southern slopes of the flat areas. Belen, Karakoy, Kökez, Bölücekkaya, Karadoğan and 1825 m. The height of the most important yaylalardandır Devevira.

Highlands Mengen Mengen township which lies east of the main plateau, turbaned, Sogucak, Mile, Basket Weaving, Çiftçatak Celebioglu and plateaus.

Mudurnu Highlands: the district are located in the north and south of Abant Lake. Dedes, Alpagut, Dağyolu Dodurga and plateaus are the most important.

Goynuk Highlands: 1000-1500 m. The most important of a band listed in the highlands of plateaus Karabey and Spoonbill.

Seben Highlands: Cherry Mountain gathered around, approximately 1400 m. The most important of these plateaus with altitude plateaus Gerenözü and Daughter.

Kizik Plateau: Plateau Kizik homes, is noteworthy for different architecture. These houses without using any nails, pine trees, truss, the snap and was in the form of interlocking. Ladders made of a high floor, with large plates and unique items they exist, these houses is very different.

Bolu BIRD OBSERVATION AREAS

Seven Lakes National Park

Abant Lake

Bolu SEPARATE AREAS FOR SPORTING EVENTS

Ski Centers Esentepe: Gerede north of the 1,300 m. with a height of winter sports and skiing is a place where the three-star Esentepe Hotel's. All the district judges who have an excellent view of the hotel is possible to make the grass skiing. Esentepe centuries-old pine trees that blow this name because of the constant region is given by Ataturk.

Kartalkaya

Hunting and Angling: Bolu, the four sides of a layer of surrounding forest and rich vegetation, with provides a wide variety of game animals to be found. Forested areas, bears, lynx, wild boar, deer, roe deer, wolves, martens, foxes, badgers, rabbits, skunks, weasels, beavers, and land animals such as squirrels and partridges, turtle doves, quail, ruffed grouse, bustard, cranes, woodcock, dove and game birds such as hawks, falcons, birds of prey such as eagles are often seen.

Bolu also incorporates a multi-lake, an ideal spot for sport fishing. Abant Lake, Golcuk, Golkoy Dam, Seven Lakes, in the very tasty Aladdin lake trout, carp, bream and silver fish can be hunted with bait.

Paragliding: Abant Mountains for paragliding is available in many convenient places, great cities during the summer months Abant tours are organized for those who want to make this sport.

Bolu gone eat WHAT?

Introducing Bolu Province 6

Bolu Thermal Springs, 5 km from the city center. distance, Karacasu forested area surrounding the hot springs is a decent resting place. Thermal tourism center in the region and the largest thermal spa hotel, a small spa and physical therapy and rehabilitation hospital of the Ministry of Health provides services in three units. Naturally, this hot springs source, rheumatic diseases, skin and heart and circulatory, respiratory, women's, digestive system, kidney and urinary tract, bone and calcification diseases, metabolic disorders, is good.

Karacasu Thermal Tourism Center

Babas spa: Mudurnu'ya 5 km. Away from the waters of the spa, travertine comes from. There are 18 beds in a facility. The spa water with metabolic diseases, rheumatism, female, digestive and kidney disorders is on the positive results.

Sarot spa: Mudurnu'nun 30 km. Ilica is in the northwest of the village boundaries. 66 º C temperature. Have been used for over 1500 years. There is a historical bath. Brackish water into the group. When used as a drinking cure, urinary tract and kidney diseases, is used as a bath is good for rheumatic diseases. There is a small accommodation facilities as well as spa.

Bağlum (Kesenözü) Baths Bağlum hot springs, 14 km from the town of Seben. South, is located in the village of Kesenözü. Been used for centuries as a spa water bath. Stomach, gall bladder, respiratory and circulatory disorders are known to have beneficial effects. There are spa in hostels run by private individuals.

Catak Spa: 30 km from the town of Goynuk. southeast of a beautiful valley between the steep slopes, close to the village Himmetoğlu. The spas are good for rheumatism, sciatica, such as mental illness is good. Roman ruins are thought to have existed in the environment.

Bolu LAKES

Abant Lake: 34 km from Bolu. Abant Mountains southwest of the crater formed on gölüdür.Yeraltı is fed by the waters.

Abant Lake and is very rich in flora and fauna. The famous Abant trout present in the lake at certain times of the year, could be hunted by paying a fee. The most suitable living environment for the deer forests of the region. Forests around the lake rabbit, fox, coyote, wolf, bear, boar, deer, weasels, deer and falcon, sparrow hawk is seen.

Picnicking, camping, sport fishing, hiking, boat, horse cart, horse trails and natural ice-skating in the winter are the activities of this nature park. There are accommodation and dining facilities around the lake.

Pond: 13 km from Bolu. a set of artificially made lake in the south. Surrounded by pine and fir trees covered with snow at the bottom of the lake view is spectacular. Guest house on the edge of the lake with the Ministry of Forestry has a rural casino. The lake and surrounding forest as a place of rest in the western Black Sea is controlled by the Regional Directorate of National Parks.

Golkoy Dam Lake: 10 km from Bolu. west. Bolu is made plain for irrigation. There are carp and trout, which are covered with forests all around. Because of the proximity and ease of access to city center, picnic and fishing by those who want to hunt and fish are very suitable.

Yeniçaga Lake: Bolu - Ankara highway, Yeniçağdistricts in the center of the lake, lake in a bowl. The lake and fish with a fishing rod.

Lake Karamurat Mudurnu'ya 35 km. within the lake, and Karamurat village close to the edge of the road to Akyazı'ya. There are pike and tench.

Bar Lake: Göynük'ün 11 km. Located to the north. The Edge bar in the village, surrounded by pine trees covered with beautiful lake trout and carp fishing rod is free to hunt with.

Leech Lake: Mudurnu - Akyazi road 9 km. away. Mudurnu 50 km from the town. away from the lake, in the protected area of ​​National Parks. Pristine nature and rich flora, the lake is remarkable. Abant lake Alas, there are rainbow and red-spotted trout.

Circumcision Lake: Göynük'ün 27 km. east. The lake is extremely beautiful and very tasty, and coral trout are available. Is free to catch these fish with angling. Circumcision in the lake of accommodation and food and beverage service establishment that has a. Around the lake, picnicking, hiking, jogging and bicycling sports are.

Karagol: Kıbrısçık - on the way Beypazari Karagol, a very deep lake. Kıbrıscık'a 20 km long. Around the camp can be totally covered with forests. The existence of wild ördeklerinin stopping point because of the hunters. Karagol Festival is held each year at the end of May.

Akkaya Strait: 10 km from Bolu. south, on the way Mudurnu travertine, as the Pamukkale of Bolu has a beauty that is worth seeing. Akkaya has a different taste, and the mineral water is 20 º C temperature, the modern facilities offered bottled for consumption.

Bolu HIGHLANDS

Introducing Bolu Province 5

Bolu in the Great Mosque (Yildirim Beyazit Mosque), Kadi Mosque, Mosque Sarachane, Imaret Mosque, Mosque Ilica, Ilica Mosque, Süleyman Paşa Mosque, Yıldırım Mosque, Suleyman Mosque, Up Tekke Mosque, Yıldırım Mosque is worth seeing eserledir Eskiçağa.

Bolu MAUSOLEUMS

Slap-i Hayreddin Tomb, Akşemseddin Mausoleum, the tomb of Omar Sekkin, Down Tekke tomb, the tomb of Kemal Ummi, November Dede Mausoleum, the tomb of Babahızır major.

Bolu INNS

Top Tashan: Tashan Bolu is located in the central Great Mosque, built in 1804 by Abdullah Aga.

Bolu Baths

Central Bath: built by Yildirim Beyazit in 1389. The richly-decorated interior in the style of a double bath in the bath are given. The city center.

Plates Bath: 16 Tavil century, was built by Mehmet Pasha. The two sections are covered with marble baths interiors.

Sultan Bath: 16 Sokullu century by Mehmet Pasha was built in the style of a double bath. City center

Suleiman Pasha Hamam: The Turkish Bath Goynuk District, was built by Suleyman Pasha Gazi 1335'li years.

Yildirim Beyazit Bath: The bath Mudurnu District, with the same name mentioned next to the mosque. The most beautiful baths in the same period. 1382'de built. Is one of the most original examples of early Ottoman baths. Hammam portal and the dome is remarkable transitions.

Lightning Bath: District of contemporary age of our city are connected to the village of Old Ages. Yildirim Beyazit in 1388 on behalf of the Turkish bath, a significant monument in terms of architecture.

Lower Bath: The bath in the 14th district of crispy Gerede County century. were made at the end of the rubble stone.

Bolu ARCHITECTURE FOR CIVIL STRUCTURES

Houses burnt: "Urban Sites", which was announced as the Goynuk, rich in old Turkish Houses. Here, the houses of the 20th belongs to the early century. Some houses have living rooms ceilings are decorated with various motifs. In front of the houses are often called "Life" is also called the courtyards.

Mudurnu Houses: Urban Sites, announced Mudurnu, is an important feature in terms of the old Turkish houses. In terms of architectural features similar to a civilian homes Goynuk, reflecting the history and culture of the district were taken to protect these houses.

Bolu PROTECTED AREAS

Seven Lakes National Park

Bolu Hazelnut Nature Reserve

Bolu Akdogan (Midwife Pine) Natural Protection Area

Bolu Kökez Nature Preserve

Bolu Sülüklügöl Nature Preserve

Abant Lake Natural Park

Bolu KAPLICALARI

Introducing Bolu Province 4

Forms more than half of its land surface is covered with forests of Bolu mountains, plateaus and plains are important. Important Mountains in the mountains south of Bolu, Abant Mountains, north Sünnice Mountains, Çelen Peak, north of Gerede Arkot and the Mountains of the lake. South, which is higher than the first two the most ordinary and volcanic mountains extends generally called Koroglu Mountains.

The local, small and large rainfall because of the richness and the abundance of slopes is rich in natural and artificial lakes. Some of the lakes in the province, Abant, Seven Lakes, Golcuk, contemporary age, the bar, the Sunnah, Karagol, Karamurat, Leech, Golkoy, Aladdin and Saraycık'tır.

Bolu, Black Sea climate is usually located within the type. In addition, the climate type is shown in the southern parts of Central Anatolia.

Bolu HISTORY

Written documents, archeological artifacts and historical sources, history of Bolu, Bithynialılar begins with. Respectively, Romans, Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans dominated in and around Bolu.

Bolu region for the first time the Ottoman invasion started by Osman Ghazi, Orhan Gazi, the period of the early years of the conquest entirely Bolu region (1324 -1326) coincided. At the end of the national struggle under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Bolu, 10 October 1923, a new administration gets turned into a province under the new arrangements.

Bolu MUSEUMS

Address: Cultural Center of Bolu - Bolu

Tel: (374) 215 39 72

Ruins of Bolu

Akşemsettin Tomb-Goynuk

Bolu (Bithynıum - Claudiopolis): According to archaeological data, the first settlement in the plain of Bolu, BC 3. extend to one thousand. The hills in the city center which was established in 1978 in the historic city of Bithynium-Claudiopolis Hisartepe according to the findings of the excavation, BC 7. goes back to centuries. The Temple of Antinous, and the theater in the excavations carried out in various parts belonging to various periods, coins, pots, bottles, statues and tomb steles were found. These works are still in Bolu Museum.

Seben Rock Houses: (Old Residential Area) on Seben District and Rice Creek is very close to each other, mentor, and Sockets Kaşbıyıklar masses of rock rising in the villages along the deep valleys on the surface of the rock houses are found a few floors.

Gerede Asar Castle: Gerede Örencik southeast of the village. Seen plenty of land around the Byzantine ceramics, which show that the castle from the Byzantine period. In addition, the castle is also available in a cave on the north facing.

Bolu MOSQUES

Introducing Bolu Province 3

Mengen Mengen is located in a wooded area and high plateaus. Major; Sogucak, Akcakoca, nose, Pole Vault, Pit Plateau, Lake Highland, Aktepe, of stewardship, Küçükkuz, chicks, Mamatlar, elementary and Afshar Plateau. TABLE, John Battle, Şirinyazı and ponds Hızarderesi important places of recreation. The most important feature of Mengen; yetiştirmesidir many famous chefs. Each year during the first week of September, the traditional "Mengen Chefs and Tourism Festival" is held.

Mudurnu: City center 52 km away from the Mudurnu County has an important feature in terms of the old Turkish houses. Mosque in the district of 165 houses and 8, a total of 173 pieces of architectural value, including fountains and baths because of the high-rise structures, "Urban Conservation Area" has been declared. One of the most beautiful examples of Turkish civil architecture of the "Armutçular Mansion" is. Leech Lake County borders, Karamurat Lake, Umran Hill and the plateau resting places of the people.

Mudurnu'ya 5 km. Located Babas and mild diabetes has positive effects on metabolic diseases Kaplıcası'nın. There are accommodation facilities. Mudurnu'nun 30 km. Sarot northwest of Hot Springs Taşkesti contained - within the boundaries of the village of Ilica. All mineral waters within the province of Bolu, which is a separate laser welding, hot and sulfate.

Seben: 52 km away from the city center of Seben District gathered around Cherry Mountain, approximately 1400 m. surrounded by high plateaus. This is the most important of the plateau and Kizik Gerenözü plateaus. Kizik Plateau homes, is noteworthy for different architecture. These houses without using any nails, pine trees, truss, the snap and was in the form of interlocking. Ladders made of a high floor, with large plates and unique items that they exist in different houses.

Seben District 14 km. south, in the village of Kesenözü Bağlum Spas stomach, gall bladder, respiratory and circulatory disorders are known to have beneficial effects.

Contemporary age: 37 km away from the city center district of Ankara-Istanbul highway contemporary age. Contemporary age ranging from the very edge of the town with the beautiful trees, a promenade along the lake shore. Fish for freshwater fish of the catfish in the lake.

Bolu GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES

Introducing Bolu Province 2

Districts of Bolu; Dörtdivan, Gerede, Goynuk, Kıbrısçık, Mengen, Mudurnu, Seben and contemporary age is.

Dörtdivan: Yağbaşlar Köyün'de Byzantine castle are the ruins of the town. From a rod on a hill between the villages and Himmat Yukarısayık Dede Mausoleum, the tomb of the Forty village of Swords, Nine Çalköy'de Sehriban Tomb, near the Central Mosque, the tomb of Dede Secamehmet bulunmaktadır.Ayrıca Yağbaşlar Village neighborhood Mursel Ayvadibi Medicinal Water Festival bulunur.Her year in July Dörtdivan plateaus Koroglu yapılmaktadır.Çalköy, Çetikören, Karaçayır, cover the most important plateaus and Kirazli.

Gerede: Asar Kale, Goat Castle ruins, historic churches, known as Han Han merchants, Up Tekke Mosque, Tomb of the Lower Tekke Mosque, Yıldırım Beyazit Mosque, Tombs of Esentepe Ramazan Dede, historical monuments and places where it hums. Esentepe is possible to ski in the winter and winter sports. There is also the opportunity to ski in the summer grass. Each year in July Esentepe traditional "Esentepe Oil Wrestling" Esentepe yapılır.Şehrin north, the main Excursion Spots Arkut Mountains plateau. Especially suitable for plateau tourism Gerede Highlands. To the south of Gerede 1200 - 1500 m. elevations in the highlands are the most important harvest, and Zorpan plateaus.

Goynuk: 20 rich in the early centuries of the old Turkish houses. Goynuk, in the township-owned historic houses 110 units, 17 mosques, tombs, fountains and baths, including a total of 127 units due to non-architectural work, "Urban Conservation Area" has been declared. Goynuk, also in 1922, is located in the 3-story Victory Tower. Rod Plateau, Plateau Arıkçayırı, Fuzzy Plateau, Değirmenözü Plateau, the most important plateaus Hacımahmut Plateau. Circumcision Lake, Bar Lake and Hot Springs Village Catak tourist must-see places.

Kibriscik: Highlands is famous for. The southern slopes of the flat areas in the highlands Koroglu Belen, Karakoy, Kökez, Bölücekkaya, Kardoğan and 1825 m. The most important of which has a height Devevira.

Karagol Kıbrısçık-Beypazarı on the way, a very deep lake hectares. Surrounding area is totally covered with forests and many beautiful places to camp there for. Due to the large number of wild ducks in the lake is a place frequented by hunters. There is possibility of accommodation in the bungalow-type homes on the lake.

Introducing Bolu Province 1

BOLU province

KÖROĞLU

BOLU

GENERAL FEATURES Bolu, Bolu, AREA, Bolu, NUMBER PLATE

Area: 11,051 sq km

Population: 380,543 (1990)

City Traffic Code: 14

The green and blue embrace, woke up with sleep, the wind was still one of the top smoky mountains, legends whispered the dramatiklerinden, size made by sprouting and the fruits of civilization for thousands of years has left a lot of city of Bolu.

Bolu, nature, people and history, whether molded, hand in hand to see the beauty of the mountains, the city says those who want to hear songs Koroglu is not difficult to reach. Bolu, Ankara and Istanbul, almost exactly in the middle above the main road that connects the two centers.

Districts of Bolu