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Top choice in Trabzon


Harry Potter fans prepare to be bewitched. Dress up for a selfie in a wizzard's gown holding the wand of your choice in a room dangling with candles and a quidditch broomstick. Then choose an ingredient for your eccentric mocktail from the potions cabinet. If in doubt, try the kaymak birası (lemon-chocolate-cream, small/large ₺14/25).

They also serve beer and cups of muggle tea. The cafe is just west of Tabakhane Bridge.


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Nearby Trabzon attractions

1. Ortahisar Tarih Museum

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A restored old house and backyard, perched on a fortress bastion above the Tabakhane Bridge, hosts a little museum that's all in Turkish but worth a five…

2. Tabakhane Köprüsü

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Crossing the 'Tannery Bridge' from Trabzon's main commercial centre, allows you a first glimpse of the once massive walls of the Ottoman citadel.

3. Tabakhane Camii

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Classic in style with some fine carvings on its frontage, the Tannery District's current mosque actually only dates to the 1980s, but there were earlier…

4. Ortahisar Fatih Büyük Camii

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Originally known by the rather breathless name of the 'Church of the Golden-Headed Virgin Mary', this mosque started out as a church, possibly built by…

5. Kanuni Park

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One of Trabzon's most charming corners, this little park falls within the fortress walls of Ortahısar. It is ringed by fine old buildings including a…

7. Zaǧnos Bridge

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With its earliest traces dating to Roman or Byzantine times, this bridge above the parklands of the Zaǧnos Valley bears the name of the Pasha (governor)…

8. Konak Camii

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This small 1883 mosque is fronted by a pair of spindly columns, supporting arches that partly mask a fine calligraphic inscription above the door.