Places to visit in Bursa
6 places from Bursa province are on the map: Uludağ, Tophane & Bursa, Lake İznik, Cumalıkızık, Tirilye & Mudanya, and Gölyazı. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Uludağ
How many names is a mountain called by in its lifetime? If we put this question to Uludağ, I suspect it would have to think for quite a while before answering… In antiquity the Mysians…
See on the map →Tophane & Bursa
“An old mosque courtyard in Bursa, / Water chattering in the little fountain…” So begins Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s poem ‘Time in Bursa’. But can time really flow differently in a city? Look…
See on the map →Lake İznik
Can there be a church at the bottom of a lake? In 2014, those photographing the shore of Lake İznik from the air probably didn’t believe their eyes when they first noticed the silhouette of…
See on the map →Cumalıkızık
How does a village stand in the same place for seven hundred years? Step into the narrow cobbled streets of Cumalıkızık and after a while you stop looking for an answer; for the village…
See on the map →Tirilye & Mudanya
How many signatures does it take to end a war? Had we asked the delegations gathered in a room of a seaside mansion in Mudanya in the autumn of 1922, they would probably all have tried to…
See on the map →Gölyazı
In the old days, the word “yazı” meant not only writing, as it does today, but also flatland, plain, open country. So what would the yazı of a göl, a lake, look like? When you reach…
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