Gümüşlük & Yalıkavak

“Men of Myndos, bar your gates, lest your city run away!” This barbed remark by the Cynic philosopher Diogenes is said to have been made when he saw the enormous gates of a tiny city. Thanks to this jest, preserved by Diogenes Laertius, ancient Myndos is still remembered with a smile today; after all, not every city is blessed with a philosopher’s joke…