Places to visit in Aksaray
4 places from Aksaray province are on the map: Mount Hasan, Ihlara Valley, Güzelyurt, and Selime Cathedral. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mount Hasan
More than eight thousand years ago, a picture was painted on the wall of a house in Çatalhöyük. In the lower part, houses lined up side by side; in the upper part, a twin-peaked mountain…
See on the map →Ihlara Valley
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…” In the ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante reads these words at the gate of Hell. Yet centuries before Dante, a hell had already been painted on the wall of a…
See on the map →Güzelyurt
In Greece, near Kavala, there is a town called Nea Karvali; the name means “New Karvali”. So where was the old Karvali, and from the shadow of which mountain did this town’s people come?…
See on the map →Selime Cathedral
To build a cathedral, do you haul stone, or do you carve into it? For most of us the answer is obvious: stones are cut, carried, stacked one upon another, and the walls rise. But at the…
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