Places to visit in Ağrı
5 places from Ağrı province are on the map: Mount Ağrı, İshak Paşa Palace, Mount Tendürek, Lake Balık, and Ağrı. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mount Ağrı
“And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” This brief line from the Torah’s Book of Genesis carries perhaps the heaviest…
See on the map →İshak Paşa Palace
In ‘The Legend of Ararat’, Yaşar Kemal tells of an old law of the mountain: whoever seeks refuge at your door is never given up… A horse, a pasha’s pride and the mountain’s unbending law…
See on the map →Mount Tendürek
“There’s no smoke without fire,” say our forebears. Anyone who learns that vents still breathe out steam on the summit of Tendürek immediately understands how apt the saying is. So have you…
See on the map →Lake Balık
For things that will never happen, we say “when the fish climbs the poplar.” Yet in the mountains of Ağrı, the fish has climbed not a poplar but all the way to 2,250 meters… And how modest…
See on the map →Ağrı
“Drop by drop, a lake is made,” say our forebears; so too with rivers. We always picture the source of a river like the Euphrates, which has carried civilizations, somewhere grand; yet more…
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