The houses of Kızık Yaylası are built without a single nail: pine timbers are framed, locked and fitted into one another. They stand on stairways raised well above the ground and are fitted with broad hearths.
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- Climate
- Across Bolu as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.6 °C in January to 20 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (61 mm) and lightest in August (24 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
