Places to visit in Aydın
6 places from Aydın province are on the map: Kuşadası & Güvercinada, Dilek Peninsula, Didim & Temple of Apollo, Aphrodisias, Priene, and Aydın & Tralleis. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Kuşadası & Güvercinada
Who gives a city its name? A king, a god, or the birds that land on its shore and take off again? Kuşadası’s answer, as its name suggests, is rather modest… Legend has it that the town took…
See on the map →Dilek Peninsula
Two great battles on the same day, on the two shores of the sea… According to the historians of antiquity, on a summer’s day in 479 BC the Greeks defeated the Persians both at Plataea in…
See on the map →Didim & Temple of Apollo
Thales of Miletus, counted among the Seven Sages of the ancient world, was once asked what the hardest thing was. His answer was short and sharp: “To know oneself.” And the easiest? “To…
See on the map →Aphrodisias
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it; it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” These words, attributed to Michelangelo, were already known as a trade secret at the foot of…
See on the map →Priene
“All that is mine I carry with me.” These words, attributed to Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages, are the memory of a day when the city was besieged. As the story goes, when the enemy…
See on the map →Aydın & Tralleis
“While you live, shine; have no grief at all; life exists only for a short while, and time demands its toll.” These lines are the words of the oldest song to have survived complete to this…
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