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- Skiing at Doruk Region during winter months,
- Seeing Ilgaz Mountain National Park,
- Visiting Çankırı Museum.
How to Get
Highway: E – 80 highway, which connect Istanbul to eastern Anatolia and Black Sea is passing within city of Çankırı. Coach Station is within city center.
Coach Station Tel : (+90-376) 213 12 17
Railway: There are scheduled lines to Ankara and Zonguldak via railway. The station is in city center.
Railway Station Tel : (+90-376) [...]
Preserved Areas
Ilgaz Mountain National Park
Natural Monuments (Dokuzkardeşler Pine)
Kastamonu – Ilgaz Mountain National Park
Çankırı Museum: Pieces of arts of Neolithic, Calcolithic, Early Bronze, Hittite, Frig, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantium, Seljuk and Ottoman periods are exhibited and introduced in Çankırı Museum.
In the exhibition hall of the museum, archeological and ethnological pieces of art are displayed together. In archeology division, pieces of art belonging to Early Bronze Age, Hittite, Hellenistic, Roman [...]
Çankırı’s regional meals can be mentioned as pastry with meat (mantı), tarhana soup, gözleme, cızlama, güveç, pıhtı, harmandaşı, fit fit aşı, pastry with walnut, çeç pastry, mıhlama, keşkek, çalma, çekme halvah.
What to Buy
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Contact Information
Governorship : (+90-376) 213 11 01
Municipality : (+90-376) 212 14 00
Hospital : (+90-376) 213 10 98 – 213 10 99
Police : (+90-376) 213 22 22 – 213 24 18
Gendarme : (+90-376) 213 35 11
Provincial Directorate : (+90-376) 213 40 47
Provincial Culture Directorate : (+90-376) 213 15 08
Provincial Cultural Directorate
Tel: (376) 213 12 76
Fax: (376) [...]
Area: 8.454 km²
Population: 270.355 (2000)
Traffic Code: 18
It is ideal for people who wants to be alone in the nature with its snow covered high mountains for the half of the year; forests covering its one third lands; plateaus appropriate for camping, caravans,horseback riding, photography and hunting and such touristic activities; rich thermal springs and mineral [...]
Ancient Cities
Cendere (Salman) Tumulus: It is within Cendere Village, on side of Çankırı – Kastamonu highway, at the south east of Ilgaz province. Monumental structures within the region are east facing cliffs of a high hill at south of Devrez Stream. There are lots of hand engraved caverns, rock tombs, a temple thought to be [...]
Thelogical Schools
During Ottoman period, education and science were of great importance in Çankırı as in the other parts of the country, and lots of theology schools were established. Çivitçioğlu Theology School, which is at the east of Büyük Mosque today, as well as Buğday Bazaar Theology School, within the garden of Wheat Bazaar Mosque are [...]