Places to visit in Hatay
6 places from Hatay province are on the map: Antakya & Habib-i Neccar, Samandağ & Mount Musa, Harbiye Waterfalls, İskenderun & Amanos, Belen Pass, and Arsuz. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Antakya & Habib-i Neccar
“Why do you weep, my raven-haired love? / This too will come, this too will pass, don’t weep,” says Karacaoğlan. Does any city know these lines as well as Antakya, or has its patience…
See on the map →Samandağ & Mount Musa
In the Quran’s Surah al-Kahf, Moses tells his young traveling companion, “I will not give up until I reach the junction of the two seas.” And at the end of that journey he meets the wise…
See on the map →Harbiye Waterfalls
In the ‘Metamorphoses’, Ovid tells how Daphne, fleeing from Apollo, is turned into a laurel tree as she runs. Robbed of hope, Apollo embraces the tree and says, “Since you cannot be my…
See on the map →İskenderun & Amanos
Is there any other commander who gave his name to so many cities? On campaigns that stretched from Egypt to India, Alexander the Great founded city after city bearing his name; he didn’t…
See on the map →Belen Pass
Can a mountain lead a whole army astray? In the autumn of 333 BC, Alexander the Great was marching with his army toward the Syrian Gates south of the Amanos Mountains, today’s Belen Pass…
See on the map →Arsuz
Some places enter history with a roar, others in silence… So how is a shore’s calm preserved for centuries? Perhaps the answer lies in Arsuz, where the mountains meet the sea and the roads…
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