Karabük starts agro-tourism with sunflower fields

The northern province of Karabük, which is home to important cultural and nature tourism centers of Turkey, has started to make a name for itself in agro-tourism with its sunflower fields after its "miracle plant" saffron and purple lavender.

With its inns, baths, mosques, fountains, bridges and historical mansions dating back to the Ottoman period, as well as Safranbolu, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the ancient city of Hadrianaupolis in Eskipazar, known as the "Zeugma of the Black Sea," Karabük welcomes approximately 1.5 million tourists annually.

Attracting visitors with the country's largest block forests, which are called the "forest sea" and shown as one of the 100 hot spots that need urgent protection in the world, as well as its nature parks, waterfalls, lakes, plateaus, canyons and camping areas in the Yenice district, Karabük also stands out with its nature tourism.

Saffron, which received the title of "national plant" after its registration, is known as a "miracle plant" because it can dye liquid up to 100,000 times its weight yellow. It has made a name for itself as "the most expensive plant in the world" because it finds buyers for 40,000 Turkish liras per kilogram. Karabük, which stepped into agro-tourism with its Saffron and lavender plants, has now started to attract people with its sunflower fields.

The sunflower fields created on an area of 350,000 square meters by the farmers in Eskipazar district with the support of the Agriculture Ministry are used as natural photography studios by professional and amateur photographers besides their contribution to the economy.

The fields' color turns yellow as sunflowers planted on the outskirts of Keçeler and İmanlar villages in the...