ZONGULDAK
Area: 8.629 Km²
Population: 1.073.560 (1990)
Traffic Code: 67
Zonguldak is a valuable to see city with its historical and natural beauties, thousands of years old caverns and infinitive green, which has a rich ancient history.
Districts : Alaplı, Çaycuma, Devrek, Ereğli and Gökçebey.
Geography
Black Sea climate is seen in Zonguldak. It is plenty raining during every season. Sea temperature between May and August months is 200C.
History
Zonduldak and environs had lived Hittite, Frig, Persia, Roman, Byzantium, Seljukian, Danişmend, Candaroğulları and Ottoman periods. Zonguldak city center is started to settle on 1849 as a settlement place as a result of founding the mining coal.
Where to Eat
Regional kitchen is composed of meal kinds generally cooked from floury (wheat and corn flour) products. Layered pastry, pastry with marrow, bazlama, cizleme, pancake, kömeç bread, pitta bread types, tarhana soup, ugmaç soup, göce soup, malayi can be mentioned among regional meals. Ereğli pitta bread and Ottoman's strawberry, Çaycuma yogurd, Devrek bun and simit as well as Zonguldak forests cultivated kuzu kestanesi are the meals which become identical with the name of the region.
What to Buy
Devrek Walking Stick, elpek gland, miner statues are the preferred souvenirs.
Don't Leave Without
- Seeing the statue constructed in memory of Uzunmehmet on Zonguldak - Kozlu highway,
- Seeing a natural miracle, Harmankaya Waterfalls, which is reached as a result of an approximate 4 km. of trekking voyage,
- Giving a break and taking a photo at Devrek province, Bostandüzü Forest Recreation area,
- Visiting Cehennemağzı Caverns, which are in demand due to religious and mythological characteristics at Ereğli province,
- Visiting Ereğli Museum.
Sites
Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Zonguldak
Sites
Archaeological Sites: 20
Urban Sites: 1
Natural Sites: 2
Historical Sites: -
Other Sites
Archaeological and Natural Sites: 1
Total: 24
Cultural (at Single Construction Scale) and Natural
Heritages: 149
TOTAL: 173
