Artvin is an authentic tourism place that contains various tourism values with festivals, it's traditional architecture, historical churches, fauna and flora riches, castles and arched bridges, green plateaus, black roses, crater lakes placed at highs of mountains, natural virgin forests, mountains heights to 3900 meter arrange order by following each other, perpendicular sloped long valleys and Çoruh river divide province in two parts.
Area: 7.436 km²
Population: 212.833 (1990)
Traffic Code: 08
Districts : Ardanuç, Arhavi, Borçka, Hopa, Murgul, Şavşat, Yusufeli.
History
Historical background of Artvin is traced to years of. 3000 BC, it means that related to Bronze Age. Hurri's, Urartu, Persians, Romans, Byzantine, Georgians and Armenians lived at Artvin. Than Artvin live Seljuklian, Saltuk, İlhanlı, Timur, Akkoyunlu, Safevi and Ottoman periods. It changed to a county of Rize at the year of 1923, than changed to province again and named Çoruh at the year of 1936. Its name changed Artvin to at the year of1956.
Geography
Artvin that placed in the east Black Sea Region, has rainy Black Sea Climate.
What to Buy
Don't return back before buying; hand art made with woodwork, items knitted with branch covers and tendril, clay pots and pans, copper - plated products and rugs.
Don't Leave Without
- Traveling Borçka Karagöller lakes and Camili Region
- Rafting at Coruh, tracking at Kackar mountains,
- Watching bullfight at Kafkas plateau,
- Eating Pucuko,
Sites
Registered Immobile Cultural and Natural Heritages in Artvin
Sites
Archeological Sites: 197
Urban Sites: 6
Natural Sites: 42
Historical Sites: -
Total: 7
Cultural (at Single Construction Scale) and Natural
Heritages: 129
TOTAL: 136
