Places to visit in Erzurum
6 places from Erzurum province are on the map: Palandöken, Erzurum, Tortum Lake & Waterfall, Narman Fairy Chimneys, Öşvank Church, and Oltu. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Palandöken
Evliya Çelebi tells a famous story about the Erzurum winter: a cat trying to leap from one rooftop to the next froze solid in midair… Those who know Evliya’s fondness for exaggeration read…
See on the map →Erzurum
“Erzurum, its bazaar and market…” So begins Sarı Gelin. Sung all across the Caucasus, each people in its own language, this folk song always leads back to the same bazaar. So at which…
See on the map →Tortum Lake & Waterfall
Can destruction be the beginning of beauty? Stand on the shore of Lake Tortum and the answer shines in the green of its water; for this lake was born neither of the rain’s patience nor a…
See on the map →Narman Fairy Chimneys
What would a sculptor carve with wind in place of a chisel and rain in place of a hammer? And what if, so as not to rush, they were given not one but thousands of years? North of Erzurum…
See on the map →Öşvank Church
If you had wished to leave a prayer of stone in a valley a thousand years ago, where would you have placed it? Perhaps by a lake, in the embrace of the mountains, on a slope where only the…
See on the map →Oltu
“A stone is heavy in its own place,” they say. Oltu’s stone rather belies this; it is surprisingly light in the palm, and it leaves home to travel to every corner of the world… So have you…
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