Fifty years ago, on a Black Sea beach near Trabzon, in Turkey’s far northeast, the fire from a hastily assembled pile of driftwood blazed cheerfully in the dark, warming a panful of locally bought ...

Picture yourself standing at the edge of a cliff, gazing up at a building that seems to defy gravity itself. These sanctuaries weren’t built for convenience or show. They were carved into ...

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Turkey will reopen Sumela Monastery in the Black Sea province of Trabzon to visitors on Thursday with its new sections after the completion of over five years of restoration work. The restoration of ...

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Half-hidden in the mist-draped folds of the Pontic Mountains, Sumela Monastery in Turkey doesn’t just sit on a cliff, it clings to it with a kind of quiet defiance. The stone structure seems to grow ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...