Kemah Kalesi stands on steep rock above the town, and the provincial directorate counts it among the oldest castles of Anatolia, describing its founding as reaching back to the Hittite-Urartian period.
Its structure is double, one work set within another, and walls run around the whole.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Erzincan as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -2.8 °C in January to 24 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (54 mm) and lightest in August (7 mm). Long-term means for 1928-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
