Places to visit in Kastamonu
5 places from Kastamonu province are on the map: Kastamonu Castle, Mount Ilgaz, Valla Canyon, İnebolu, and Cide & Gideros Bay. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Kastamonu Castle
At the end of the summer of 1925, Mustafa Kemal came to Kastamonu and appeared before the people with a hat in his hand. Many of those gathered in the streets that day perhaps did not fully…
See on the map →Mount Ilgaz
In the winter of 1921, convoys of oxcarts were moving along the snowy roads of Mount Ilgaz. In these carts, wheels creaking, hauled by oxen with heavy steps, there was neither flour nor…
See on the map →Valla Canyon
What measures the depth of a canyon? Meters, or how few dare to enter it? For Valla Canyon, the second measure may be the truer one; for this wild corner of the Küre Mountains is known as…
See on the map →İnebolu
“They who are as many / as ants on the earth, / fish in the water, / birds in the air…” says Nâzım Hikmet in his epic ‘Kuvâyi Milliye’. But where had the poet who would write this epic…
See on the map →Cide & Gideros Bay
We all know Hababam Sınıfı, ‘The Chaos Class’; but do you know where the pen that wrote all that laughter was born? Rıfat Ilgaz came into the world in 1911 on this stretch of the Black Sea…
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