{"id":238987,"date":"2019-05-25T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=238987"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T11:54:09","slug":"trabzons-famous-sumela-monastery-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/trabzons-famous-sumela-monastery-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Trabzon\u2019s famous S\u00fcmela Monastery opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first part of the picturesque\u00a0Black\u00a0Sea\u00a0province of\u00a0Trabzon\u2019s great monument\u00a0S\u00fcmela Monastery\u00a0has been opened to visitors on May 25 following a four-year-long comprehensive restoration and rock improvement work, Hurriyet Daily News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/trabzons-famous-sumela-monastery-to-open-on-may-25-143686\">reports<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery, which is located on a steep and rocky area in the Karada\u011f Mountain in Alt\u0131ndere Valley and offers its guests a combination of nature, history and culture, has been closed to visitors due to extensive restoration and rock improvement works.<\/p>\n<p>With its natural beauties, unique scenery and tourism alternatives, the monastery is popular every season and offers visitors different opportunities such as trekking, mountain biking, paragliding, and a photo safari.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had previously said that in the monastery, so far 4,000 tons of rocks were cleaned, a 300-meter walkway was maintained, historical aqueducts, the entrance building, and the stairs were restored again.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery\u00a0was closed in 2015 for a restoration process to eliminate danger caused by the rock masses around Karada\u011f Mountain. Restoration works have also been ongoing inside the historical monastery.<\/p>\n<p>It is a Greek Orthodox monastery and also has a very significant place in the history of art. It is believed that the monastery was constructed in the 4th century, although Alexios III (1349 \u2013 1390) can be named as the real founder.<\/p>\n<p>It is inside the Alt\u0131ndere National Park and is surrounded by a beautiful forest. At the bottom of the mountain flows one of the arms of De\u011firmendere Creek.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles can reach up to the parking lot at 950 meters height near the river, and from that point, one needs to hike uphill through the pathway approximately 1 km to reach the entrance of the monastery, which is located 1,200 meters above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Hurriyet Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part of the picturesque\u00a0Black\u00a0Sea\u00a0province of\u00a0Trabzon\u2019s great monument\u00a0S\u00fcmela Monastery\u00a0has been opened to visitors on May 25 following a four-year-long comprehensive restoration and rock improvement work, Hurriyet Daily News reports. S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery, which is located on a steep and rocky area in the Karada\u011f Mountain in Alt\u0131ndere Valley and offers its guests a combination of nature,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":238988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16975,1698],"class_list":["post-238987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-sumela-monastery","tag-turkey"],"better_featured_image":{"id":238988,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":640,"height":423,"file":"2019\/05\/Manastirea-Sumela-1.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Manastirea-Sumela-1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Manastirea-Sumela-1-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":238987,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Manastirea-Sumela-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238987\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=238987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238987\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238988\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=238987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=238987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=238987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}