Aya Varvara stands close to the Sümela monastery. Its date of founding is not known; from its architecture and decoration it is dated to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
It is thought to have been connected with Sümela, and it has also been suggested that it may have been Sümela's burial ground. It is small: a church enclosed by a protective wall, together with various spaces whose foundations are what can be seen today. It is on the Maçka road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Trabzon as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.3 °C in February to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (113 mm) and lightest in July (37 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
