Altaş Kalesi — the village and the castle are also given as Ur — stands on a pointed hill east of the village, at the eighteenth kilometre of the Ardahan-Hanak road.
Historical sources mention only its name and its location, nothing more. Its first date of building is not settled, though the provincial directorate says it is understood to have existed since the seventh or eighth century.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ardahan as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -11.2 °C in January to 16.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in July and August; rainfall is heaviest in June (92 mm) and lightest in January (20 mm). Long-term means for 1958-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
