Guide
The Boğazköy-Alacahöyük Historical National Park was registered in 1988 and lies in the Boğazkale district of Çorum, covering 2,634 hectares. Inside it stands Hattusa, the Hittite capital and one of the oldest civilisations of Anatolia, together with monuments around it: the city walls, the Lion Gate, the Yer Kapı and Yazılıkaya are the principal ones.
The park carries two separate UNESCO listings, which are often confused. The site itself entered the World Heritage list in 1986. The cuneiform tablet archives found within the park have been on the Memory of the World register since 2001. Walking routes run through the area, and there is an open-air museum of the Hittite empire along with an archaeological museum.
The park lies within the Irano-Turanian phytogeographical region, and survey has recorded 215 species, 4 subspecies and 2 varieties belonging to 139 genera in 40 families. Thirty-nine of them, 18 per cent, are endemic, and among these Thymus leucostomus var. argillaceus is listed as vulnerable.
The bird count comes from three sources added together, and the Directorate is explicit about it: the Çorum provincial biodiversity survey recorded 18 species in 2016; searching the Kuşbank records under the names Hattusas and Hattuşaş-Boğazkale returns 65 species across 2001, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2019; and the Directorate's own website names 25. Taken together these give 79 species at Hattusa, and the Directorate notes that planned regular fieldwork will produce firmer figures.
Facilities on the site are an entrance control point, day-use areas, a country restaurant, a prayer room, lavatories and a visitor reception centre, with a stated capacity of 900 visitors and 300 vehicles. The park is 86 kilometres from the centre of Çorum on asphalt road the whole way, and 155 kilometres — about two hours by car — from Merzifon airport.
- Designated
- 21.09.1988
Entry fee
- Black Sea group 2 · category 1 · Per person
- 65 ₺
