CityKemeraltı Bazaar and Kunduracılar Street
about 5 min on foot from the hotel · 350 m
Trabzon’s old bazaar begins on the west side of Meydan Park. Kunduracılar Street was once the line the Silk Road took through the city; Taşhan, Vakıfhan, Alaca Han and the Bedesten all stand inside this bazaar, close to one another.
Good to know before you go
Trabzon’s Ottoman-era hans (inns) were built along the axis where Kunduracılar Street, which carried the Silk Road, connects to the port and to Erzurum Street.
Source: ntv.com.tr
The Provincial Yearbook of 1873 counts 33 hans in the city centre; seven of them survive today. Alacahan, Taşhan, Vakıfhan and the Bedesten are among these buildings.
Source: ntv.com.tr
Taşhan was built in the 16th century by İskender Pasha, Governor of Trabzon; the Culture Portal gives its construction as 1531–1533.
Source: kulturportali.gov.tr
Vakıfhan is the three-storey han with a courtyard to the north-west of the Bedesten; according to the inscription on the fountain beside it, it was built by Hacı Yahya in 1781.
Source: kulturportali.gov.tr
Alaca Han, on Bakırcılar Street, has no inscription; from its architecture it is thought to date from the 18th century.
Source: kulturportali.gov.tr
Getting there from the hotel
about 5 min on foot · 350 m
Walk up Taksim Caddesi to Meydan Park; Kunduracılar Street runs west from the square, into the bazaar.
Open directions in Google MapsWalking times: Google Maps walking route. Measured: October 2, 2026.
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