{"id":241468,"date":"2019-06-12T17:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=241468"},"modified":"2019-06-12T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T14:47:56","slug":"over-6400-tourists-visit-sumela-monastery-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/over-6400-tourists-visit-sumela-monastery-in-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 6,400 tourists visit S\u00fcmela monastery in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery\u00a0has seen an influx of tourists during the\u00a0Eid\u00a0al-Fitr\u00a0festival following a four-year-long comprehensive restoration and rock improvement project, H\u00fcrriyet<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the first day of the festival on June 4, a total of 1,990 tourists visited the picturesque monastery located in the Black Sea province of Trabzon. On the second day on June 5, another 4,418 entered the great monument.<\/p>\n

In total, some 6,408 tourists visited the monastery during the two-day festival. Along with the surge of\u00a0visitors\u00a0came a traffic jam on the road to the monastery\u2019s parking lot.<\/p>\n

S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery\u00a0was temporarily closed on Sept. 22, 2015 for a restoration project to eliminate danger caused by loose rocks around Karada\u011f Mountain in the Alt\u0131ndere Valley. Restoration work has also been ongoing inside the historical monastery.<\/p>\n

The first part of the monastery was opened to\u00a0visitors\u00a0on May 25. Since then, a total of 14,000\u00a0visitors\u00a0have flocked to the great monument.<\/p>\n

There was no entrance fee for the monastery during the May 25-June 1 period, but after that day, admission was set at 10 Turkish Liras (approximately $1.70) per person by the Culture and\u00a0Tourism\u00a0Ministry.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery, located on a steep and rocky area, offers a stunning combination of nature, history and culture.<\/p>\n

The monastery is popular during every season. Visitors often participate in trekking, mountain biking, paragliding and photo safaris.<\/p>\n

It is a Greek Orthodox monastery was constructed in the fourth century and founded Emperor Alexios III of Trebizond (1349 \u2013 1390).<\/p>\n

The monastery sits inside the Alt\u0131ndere National Park and is surrounded by a beautiful forest. At the bot-tom of the mountain flows one of the arms of De\u011firmendere Creek.<\/p>\n

Vehicles can drive as far as the parking lot at 950 meters height near the river. From that point,\u00a0visitors\u00a0need to hike for about 1 kilometer along on uphill trail to reach the entrance of the monastery, which is located 1,200 meters above sea level.<\/p>\n

Photography courtesy of Home of Trabzon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0S\u00fcmela\u00a0Monastery\u00a0has seen an influx of tourists during the\u00a0Eid\u00a0al-Fitr\u00a0festival following a four-year-long comprehensive restoration and rock improvement project, H\u00fcrriyet reports. On the first day of the festival on June 4, a total of 1,990 tourists visited the picturesque monastery located in the Black Sea province of Trabzon. On the second day on June 5, another 4,418…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":241454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10386,16975,19787],"class_list":["post-241468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-orthodox-news","tag-sumela-monastery","tag-tourists"],"better_featured_image":{"id":241454,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1920,"height":1265,"file":"2019\/06\/M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela-890x586.jpg","width":890,"height":586,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela-890x586.jpg"},"large":{"file":"M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela-1024x675.jpg","width":1024,"height":675,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela-1024x675.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":241468,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/M\u0103n\u0103stirea-S\u00fcmela.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241468\/"}],"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\/18\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=241468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241468\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241454\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=241468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=241468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=241468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}