Places to visit in Kars
4 places from Kars province are on the map: Ani Ruins, Kars Castle, Sarıkamış & Cıbıltepe, and Kağızman & Aras Valley. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Ani Ruins
When does a city die? When its walls fall, when its last inhabitant locks the door and leaves, or when there is no one left to speak its name? If it is the last, then Ani never died; for…
See on the map →Kars Castle
“The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.” With this sentence Orhan Pamuk opens his novel ‘Snow’, in Turkish ‘Kar’, bringing his hero Ka to a city beneath…
See on the map →Sarıkamış & Cıbıltepe
“Do not pass by, calling the ground you tread mere earth; know it: / Think of the thousands lying shroudless beneath.” These lines of the İstiklal Marşı, the Turkish national anthem…
See on the map →Kağızman & Aras Valley
Who first drew a picture on stone? That nameless hand that first carved the horns of a wild goat into a rock face, what was it trying to say: a hunt, a prayer, or simply “I was here too”?…
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