Charming and cosmopolitan Sinop is both the most northerly point on the Turkish Black Sea Coast and also the best protected harbor.
It is now a place of little consequence compared with its importance in antiquity, when it was a busy commercial city at the northern end of principal caravan routes from Cappadocia and the lands of the Euphrates.
The town streets, with some lovely surviving Ottoman houses, are a delight, while history fiends will enjoy climbing upon the old city fortifications, with their panoramic sea views down by the harbor.
