Amasya Vacation Guide

Many important personalities in the fields of science, politics and arts have been nurtured, have spent their lives and created their works in Amasya. This cultural opulence can be traced in every corner of the city. The city has been home to numerous shahzadahs and has been a fountain of theologists, sheikhs ul-islam and pashas or the palace.

World famous geographer Strabon was brn and lived in Amasya as well. Sabuncuzade Şerafeddin bin Ali, who has authored one of the most valuable pieces of work in the field of medicine, lived in Amasya and has acquired and shared his knowledge in the treatment of his patients in Darüşşifa.

Works of Sheikh Hamdullah, also known as the kiblah of scribes, who is one of the greatest talents of calligraphy, can be seen all over Amasya. Beyazid II with his apellation Adli, and the first poetess to collect her poems, Mihri Hatun produced their work here.

The tradition, started by these eminent figures only a bunch of whom has been mentioned here, is still alive today.

Great masters of Turkish music, priceless hands of stone and woodwork and calligraphy, poets and writers who build worlds out of words have all been inspired by the infinite resource that is Amasya. History and culture that brims Amasya overflows he city in the form of art.