Safranbolu

Nomad Village, will enter the World Heritage List

Famous Safranbolu district of Karabük historic mansion 20 years ago as a college student began exploring urban conservation plan implementation of faculty members at the suggestion "Nomadic Village" nude UNESCO's work has started to become one of the protected areas in the World Heritage List.

Safranbolu - A - famous Safranbolu district of Karabük historic mansion 20 years ago as a college student began exploring urban conservation plan implementation of faculty members at the suggestion "Nomadic Village" nude UNESCO's work has started to become one of the protected areas in the World Heritage List.

Safranbolu 11 kilometers away in the village nomads, noting the historic mansions that are reported to be the oldest 450 years, Albanians stoned streets, laundry, with mosques and fountains reflects all the features of the Ottoman Empire.

Culture and Tourism Ministry in 1997, the historical buildings of the village is under protection because of the wealth is synonymous with traditional folk culture and life style in architecture. Mansions built without sacrificing the aesthetics, as well as the social life of the architectural features of the landscape due to the blocking of each other also has a special importance.

The history of architecture is protected as a whole, the world is prepared to existence Surd urine of showing nomad village as one of the major rural Reconstruction Protection Plan, after the Karabük Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Conservation District Board approved UNESCO's protected areas in the World Heritage List It aims to be among.

Karabük Cultural and Natural Heritage Conservation District Board members and Karabük University Safranbolu Fethi Toker Fine Arts and Design Faculty Head of the Restoration Department. Dr. Aysun Özköse, AA said in a statement to reporters, said that UNESCO's efforts to enter the drive among the world heritage sites.

Join trying to complete the required procedures to apply for UNESCO and then only in the rural areas of the city not included in the world heritage list explaining Özköse, he said:

"Traditional villages, representing the rural, with all of the local architecture, continue with the traditions and cultural values ​​in real time in terms of being a place of their own should be included in the UNESCO list. UNESCO officials need to come here and study. Corporate structure was completed with the development plan. This study gives us hope for the future of the village. UNESCO's criteria is not the same anymore. Future management plan, the features associated with it, leaving that ministry-level budgets and leave taken into account several criteria as to awareness among the people. Our efforts to enter nomad village between fields with the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Foundation in progress. Being one of the world heritage site, protectionism, in terms of project support and promotion will provide great benefit to us. "

Assoc. Dr. Aysun Özköse, drawing attention to the work the nomad village dating back 20 years to come to this stage, he said:

"Safranbolu Vocational School in the village familiar through our faculty member of a student. Our students (point our village let the play speak business), he suggested. So we started work we visited the village. Repair of several buildings and in the streets of tissue was performed. There are very few places Yor k preserved as a whole village. Culture and Tourism Ministry may revive here. The villages that face our guests a variety of activities within the scope of the current visit, they find it even more beautiful than Safranbolu. When you step into the village doing if you're going to travel back in time and Ottoman periods at a time. "

Most of the village's housing is registered, others can be made available at that point in tissue repair Özköse, he said:

"Our biggest dream is to create a similar UNESCO Venice and the restoration of the nomad village schools in cities such as Florence. Why nomad village, especially wood and adobe architecture on the spot whether an international school education? World experts about what can be grown here in the wooden architectural restoration is receiving training to go to Florence. We should make offers such projects. We no longer have examples in the world of wood and adobe architecture. related courses can be arranged. He also provided a significant contribution to Safranbolu and Turkey. "

Safranbolu, just as 750 years in the village nomads fame in the early 'Odabasi House ", 450 years of history has come with the glory of the oldest standing home the title.

All the same architectural features of the village survived intact until today since the house with centuries shaped like an open air museum.

Those wishing to explore the centuries-old nomadic village, Istanbul or Ankara Gerede reach via the expressway private car to the intersection, you should go the way of the Samsun direction. Then Karabük and Kastamonu approach leaving from the road to reach what route through the village of Safranbolu nomad located 1.5 kilometers inland.

Those who want to go with the coaches should choose the bus to Karabük. Karabük morning from the city center and made the village minibus in the evening.

the availability of accommodation in the village who want to spend a night, B & B can be rented from the house. If no pension if they will rent can stay in Safranbolu.

Meanwhile, two cafes in the village serving spinach, mushrooms, discover the unique flavor of nomad with cheese and minced pancakes. It served at Café buttermilk and homemade baklava is also quite famous. Meals offered by a company in the village nomads also leaves a memorable flavors in the palate.

Several souvenir shop is made of wool street bridge between relief and sold in miniature windows and enjoys great popularity. In the village a lot of work produced organic jams, molasses, tomato paste, sauces, pickles, tarhana, noodles, lime, mint and oregano's.

who in 1996 made repairs in 1879 and is now used as an art gallery "Laundry" with embellishments in the village nomads cemetery tombstones constitute some of the works can be seen.