A Foodie’s Guide to Amasra
Amasra is one of the most distinctive food towns in Turkey, and the reason is simple: it is a fishing port on the Black Sea, and the Black Sea has a cuisine that almost nothing else in Turkey resembles.

Amasra is one of the most distinctive food towns in Turkey, and the reason is simple: it is a fishing port on the Black Sea, and the Black Sea has a cuisine that almost nothing else in Turkey resembles.

Amasra is a small town, and its famous things — the castle, the harbor, the postcard views — draw the crowds that arrive by the busload in the summer.

Amasra is one of the most affordable places on the Turkish coast, and it is the kind of destination where a budget traveler can have a rich trip without feeling the squeeze.

Amasra is a fishing town, and its food is the food of the Black Sea — a world apart from the Mediterranean cooking of the southern coast.

Amasra is a small town, and the choice of where to stay is really a choice about the view and the atmosphere rather than the logistics — the whole town fits within a short walk, and every base puts the harbor…

Amasra is a small town with a concentrated list of pleasures, and nearly all of them are free, beautiful, and within walking distance of the harbor.

Two days in Amasra is enough to see everything the town holds and still have time for the slow pleasures — the harbor, the fish dinners, the views — that are the real point of the place.

Amasra is the postcard of the Turkish Black Sea coast — a small town that wraps around two peninsulas on the sea, with a castle on a rocky island, a harbor full of fishing boats, and beaches of fine sand and…
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