Routes
Explore Amasya by following a story: the princes, the water, everyday life along the river, or the kings of Pontus in the rocks of Harşena. Choose where to begin. When you reach a stop you can stamp its seal in your passport; collect every seal on a route and its certificate opens.
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The dotted lines show the order of the stops, not the streets to walk; for the way there, use the walking route buttons on the stop pages. A two-coloured marker is a stop on two routes; a marker with a dashed edge is a stop whose coordinates are still provisional. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence.
Route 1 · 14 stops
Amasya is called “the city of princes” because Ottoman princes learned the art of government here, serving as governors of the province. This route follows their traces: the places they built, had built, and were buried in.
Route 2 · 11 stops
Amasya is a river city. This route follows the water: the bridges built to cross it, the bathhouses that heated it and turned it into healing, the channel cut into the rock, and the hospital.
Route 3 · 9 stops
Mansions lined up along the riverbank, the bedesten, Taşhan and the clock tower. This route takes you to the places where the city's everyday life went on.
Route 4 · 12 stops
Tombs of kings carved into the rock, the castle on Harşena, a water channel from the Roman period: this route takes you through the city's oldest layers. Along the way there is also a mosque of Byzantine origin, and mosques, a madrasa and tombs from the first centuries of the Turkish period (13th–14th centuries); the route ends at the museum.
9 monuments are on two routes at once. Walking one route, you can switch to the other at these stops.