City of Safranbolu

Caravans crossing Anatolia stopped at Safranbolu for six centuries, from the 1200s until the railway ended the trade in the early 20th century. Wealth from that traffic built the town's famous Ottoman houses, whose 17th-century golden-age architecture set patterns copied across much of the empire. Its medieval beginnings survive in the Old Mosque and Old Bath, and in the Süleyman Pasha Medrese — all raised in 1322. UNESCO inscribed Safranbolu in 1994.