The castle at Ambar village has its gateway cut out of the stone, and three rooms one within another behind it. On the upper part of the castle there are basins carved out of the rock.
Two minarets stand in the country around it, and there are remains of irrigation channels nearby. The village is in the central district of Tunceli.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Tunceli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -1.8 °C in January to 27.1 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (133 mm) and lightest in August (5 mm). Long-term means for 1960-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
