1 Million Visitors to the Sumela Monastery

Turkey's most important historical, touristic and that their faith in places, in Trabzon, where domestic and foreign thousands of tourists visit the town of Macka on Sumela Monastery in Montenegro skirt, reached the final in the start of restoration work in 2015. In order to prevent the rock and ice masses from falling down and causing negativity in the monastery, the 'slope improvement work', which is carried out with a special team of industrial climbers, has been completed. The teams carried out rock cleaning in an area of approximately 80 thousand square meters in the works carried out in 3 stages. With the works, 4 thousand tons of rock was cleaned in the area. The monastery is planned to open on May 25.

1 million visitors to Sümela Monastery

Maçka Mayor Koray Koçhan, the cable car will carry over 1 million tourists to Sümela by stating, " there will be a separate thing to transport the minibuses. Moving by cable car will be a separate image. It was a project carried out by the Metropolitan Municipality in partnership with Nature Conservation and National Parks. The first stop will start from the entrance of the gate of Sumela Monastery. It will throw an arm towards the navigational terraces across. He'll come back to Sumela Monastery. Our metropolitan municipality plans these cable cars as large wagons for 40 people. Make, operate, transfer model and profit sharing model in the forefront of a project they will do. The project is finished, he's waiting for his investor. There are a few companies interested. last year we hosted over 400 thousand tourists there in 4 months. Especially with the opening of the cable car and Sümela, I am sure that this number will exceed 1 million,” he said. In the monastery where visitors can see from a different angle by building a viewing terrace, a project was prepared for the ropeway project. Trabzon Metropolitan Municipality will implement the cable car line, which will be approximately 2.5 kilometers long, with a model of build, operate and transfer. In the project, a cable car line will be established in which there will be 40-person wagons.