Places to visit in Kayseri
5 places from Kayseri province are on the map: Erciyes, Kayseri & Its Castle, Soğanlı Valley, Kapuzbaşı Waterfalls, and Mount Ali & Talas. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Erciyes
Have you ever dreamed of seeing two seas at once from the top of a mountain? Strabo, the geographer from Amasya, writes that the few who managed to climb to the summit of Argaios, as…
See on the map →Kayseri & Its Castle
Which is the greater act of devotion: giving a city’s name to an emperor, or dedicating a hospital to a sister? Kayseri is a city that has known both… Known in antiquity as Mazaka, the city…
See on the map →Soğanlı Valley
Can a valley really be named after onions — soğan in Turkish? One tale told of Soğanlı Valley, at the quiet edge of Cappadocia, says the name has nothing to do with onions: during the Arab…
See on the map →Kapuzbaşı Waterfalls
What do we say of someone very resourceful? “They could draw water from a stone.” Said of those who make the impossible possible, this phrase stops being an idiom in Kayseri’s Yahyalı…
See on the map →Mount Ali & Talas
According to Evliya Çelebi, in the reign of Murad IV, Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi took off from the Galata Tower with contraptions resembling eagle’s wings, crossed the Bosphorus and landed in…
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