Kazan Kale stands 12 to 13 kilometres northeast of Ardahan, on a tongue-shaped rise where the Kura valley narrows, on the right bank taking the river's direction of flow.
Its date is not known. Traces of earlier settlement lie around it.
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).
