Gideros Bay
Gideros, one of the most beautiful bays in Turkey, is 11 kilometers west of Cide district center. The mouth of the bay opening to the sea is 130 meters wide and the bay is 514 meters wide. The name of the bay is thought to come from Kytoros, a Genoese word.
In addition to being covered with a very dense vegetation, it is a region with limited land connections with the surrounding regions due to its mountainous geographical structure, but a relatively strong maritime connection. The area around Gideros Bay is covered with boxwood, chestnut, beech, oak and pine trees. The reflections of the colors of these trees are seen on the water covering the bay.
Eustathius, one of Homer's commentators, mentions a saying about Gideros: 'Carry boxwood to Gideros'. A similar saying is used in England as ‘Carry coals to Newcastle’. This saying also refers to the abundance of boxwood trees in Gideros. The Black Sea region is the only region where high quality boxwood grows, and epigraphic sources show that Kytoros in Paphlagonia (Gideros and its surroundings) ranked first in this field. It is known that many luxury and daily use items such as combs, kline, lyres, salt shakers, wax writing tablets, yokes, boxes, cheese molds, flutes, spinning tops, spears and weaving shuttles were made from boxwood trees, which were densely spread in Kytoros and the surrounding mountains.
Coming from the direction of Cide and from the direction of Bartın, the coast can be reached from two different branches.
