Kula Volcanoes

Describing these lands in the upper valley of the Gediz, the geographer Strabo calls them Katakekaumene, the “Burnt Land”. No trees but vines; pitch-black rocks, ash-gray hills, and the feeling that you are standing in the middle of a hearth that has only just gone out… So how could such a landscape have come to be here, deep in Anatolia, just a few hours from the olive groves?