Places to visit in Isparta
7 places from Isparta province are on the map: Lake Eğirdir, Mount Davraz, Lake Kovada, Sagalassos, Mount Dedegöl, Yazılı Canyon, and 1 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Lake Eğirdir
In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Shakespeare writes: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” So would changing a single letter in a town’s name change…
See on the map →Mount Davraz
Stand on the shore of Lake Eğirdir in winter and turn your gaze to the mountains; just beyond the blue of the lake rises a giant ridge wrapped in white… How does a lake manage to stay so…
See on the map →Lake Kovada
Some lakes show themselves at once; the moment you reach the shore, they greet you in all their blue. Kovada, though, appears slowly out of the forest, from among the trees, like a shy…
See on the map →Sagalassos
Can water flow again today from a fountain built two thousand years ago? It may sound like a fairy tale, but at fifteen hundred meters on Akdağ, in a mountain city close to the clouds, that…
See on the map →Mount Dedegöl
In the words of Sir Edmund Hillary: “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” So what can a mountain that stops just two meters short of three thousand teach us?
See on the map →Yazılı Canyon
The Stoic philosopher Epictetus said: “Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.” So if a philosopher’s words are carved into the rocks of a canyon, does…
See on the map →Isparta & Gölcük
Gertrude Stein’s famous line goes: “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” But for a city, is the rose just a flower, or is it also a season, a scent, a livelihood, an identity?
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