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Erasmus in Kastamonu City

Published by flag- Mahmud Amino — 4 years ago

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Kastamonu city is located on the southern tip of the Black Sea. The city has one airport its name kastamonu, and it is worth noting that Kastamonu is famous for its abundance of minerals and its wonderful and attractive copper vessels.

Kastamono is characterized by many wonderful landmarks and many areas suitable for many recreational activities where you find mosques and castles dating back to previous periods and reflect the Ottoman civilizations, Byzantine and Roman, and you find inside the remains of them.

The most prominent of these is the 12th-century Byzantine castle situated on the plateau. At the foot of the plateau you find the 13th-century Atabi mosques, the Ibn Nasr mosque and the village of Kasaba. You will have the opportunity to see the most beautiful wooden sculptures in Turkey at Mahmoud Bey mosque.

The İlgaz National Park, which combines greenery and rugged nature with mountain beauty and sees tropical life, has a place dedicated to skiing. There is a ski center and you can enjoy the views of İlgaz Mount .

There is the cave "İlgarini" and the cave "Alinka" underground. Equestrian sports can be performed in the center of Daday, with its holiday center Abana, the spectacular Gidros Bay, the historic clock tower, the Kastamonu archaeological museum, the Evrenya village, the beautiful houses of Anipolo, the İljaz waterfalls, the historic Ismail Pasa complex.

Kastamonu's many palaces have tourist resorts with hotels and residences for full stay with seafood specialties.

It is characterized by the beauty and diversity of its architecture and is famous for its environmental sports, such as hiking, mountaineering and skiing. UNESCO has named PınarBası Mountain in the municipality of Daday, a nature reserve. This mountain contains 350 caves, of which only 250 have so far been discovered. Eli, which reaches a depth of more than 300 meters. In sight, small huts and houses of wood in the mountains of more than 250 years, from plains of greenery to mountain peaks covered by dense forests, from the horror of nature to the flora of flutes in the forests and valleys, from waterfalls to cold water springs, from the majestic mountain landscape to And the delicacy of the animals you inhabit.

Kastamonu city claime

It has a humid continental climate, with an average temperature of 32 ° C with a cold winter climate and a warm summer. The rain falls almost evenly throughout the year and spring is the most rainy month of the year.

The education in the city

It has an important university, the University of Kastamonu, which was founded in 2006 after the integration of a group of colleges and institutes belonging to the University of Ankara and Gazi.
It has a number of prestigious secondary schools: the Abdul Rahman Pasa Lisesi School, known as Kastamonu Lisesi, which was the first modern secondary school founded in Anatolia in the late Ottoman period.


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