Safranbolu

A UNESCO World Heritage city in northwestern Turkey that preserves one of the largest concentrations of traditional Ottoman timber-frame architecture in Anatolia. The old quarter, called Çarşı, contains around a thousand historic houses built between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, with projecting upper floors, carved woodwork, and red-tiled roofs clustered on steep hillsides above a canyon. The town's former role as a caravanserai stop on the Silk Road contributed to its prosperity and the density of its surviving historical fabric.