Places to visit in Gümüşhane
5 places from Gümüşhane province are on the map: Gümüşhane, Zigana Pass, Karaca Cave, Tomara Waterfall, and Santa Ruins. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Gümüşhane
If a city is named after a metal, does the metal’s worth pass to the city, or is the city’s fate bound to the mine? Looking at Gümüşhane, the “house of silver”, there is a little truth in…
See on the map →Zigana Pass
“Thalatta! Thalatta!” That is, “The sea! The sea!”… In the ‘Anabasis’, Xenophon tells how that cry went up. Ten thousand Greek soldiers had set out to fight for the Persian throne; after a…
See on the map →Karaca Cave
Asked the color of darkness, most of us would answer “black” without hesitation. Yet those who enter a cave in the mountains of Gümüşhane abandon that answer when they find a thousand and…
See on the map →Tomara Waterfall
How long does a snowflake’s journey last? We imagine that the small white flake that lands on a mountaintop in winter simply melts and vanishes when spring comes. Yet sometimes it travels…
See on the map →Santa Ruins
Why would a village be named “Dumanlı”, the misty one? On the high slopes north of Gümüşhane, mist climbs up from the valleys every afternoon and spreads like a veil over the houses, the…
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