Places to visit in Izmir
11 places from Izmir province are on the map: Konak & Gulf of Izmir, Çeşme & Alaçatı, Ephesus, Şirince, Pergamon Acropolis, Foça, and 5 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Konak & Gulf of Izmir
“The poplars of Izmir, their leaves come falling down…” So begins that slow, solemn zeybek. But why speak of poplars and falling leaves to tell of a city? Perhaps because Izmir is a city…
See on the map →Çeşme & Alaçatı
Can we see the wind? Of course not; but in Alaçatı we see what it sways, what it turns, whom it calls to the sea. On this shore at the tip of the peninsula, facing the island of Chios, the…
See on the map →Ephesus
“You cannot step into the same river twice,” says Heraclitus of Ephesus. The city of this dark philosopher, who taught that everything flows and nothing stays the same, became perhaps the…
See on the map →Şirince
What is the surest shortcut to protecting a village from the evil eye? According to the tales, the village’s former inhabitants came up with a rather curious answer: calling their village…
See on the map →Pergamon Acropolis
“Books have their own fates,” says the Latin poet Terentianus Maurus. So how is the fate of a library written? Climb the steep acropolis hill of Pergamon and you can hear the answer in the…
See on the map →Foça
Did you know that Marseille is the daughter of a small town in Izmir? It may not sound very convincing, but history records it plainly: this great French port city was founded around 600 BC…
See on the map →Karaburun Peninsula
In Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, old Nestor, recounting the voyage home from Troy, recalls a moment of decision: should the ships sail by way of the open sea off Chios, or past “windy Mimas”? That…
See on the map →Sığacık & Teos
Do you know Anacreon, who sang in his poems of wine, love and the sweet melancholy of growing old? One of the best-loved lyric poets of the ancient world, Anacreon was born right here, in…
See on the map →Urla & Karantina Island
“In everything there is a portion of everything,” says Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. The philosopher who held that the universe is a mixture, that even the smallest part bears the trace of the…
See on the map →Bozdağ & Gölcük
Have you ever heard of a mountain serving as a judge? As Ovid tells it in the ‘Metamorphoses’, goat-footed Pan one day challenges Apollo’s lyre with his reed pipe, and the god of Mount…
See on the map →Yamanlar & Karagöl
To stay thirsty and hungry forever, in a place where water and fruit are right under your nose… You know one of the harshest punishments in mythology: the punishment of Tantalus. This king…
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