Places to visit in Konya
8 places from Konya province are on the map: Mevlana & Konya, Lake Beyşehir & Kubadabad, Çatalhöyük, Sille, Kilistra, Lake Meke, and 2 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mevlana & Konya
“Bişnev în ney çün şikâyet mî-koned / Ez cüdâyîhâ hikâyet mî-koned…” The Masnavi opens with this couplet: Listen to this reed how it complains: it is telling a tale of separations… So how…
See on the map →Lake Beyşehir & Kubadabad
With his whole realm before him, where does a sultan build his summer palace? By the sea, in the mountains, or on the shore of a great lake that suddenly appears in the middle of the…
See on the map →Çatalhöyük
Aristotle describes man as a creature drawn by nature to live in a city. So when did people first decide to live together, in a city? Sooner or later, the path of anyone seeking the answer…
See on the map →Sille
A church that has stood for centuries in a valley this close to Mevlânâ’s city… At first glance it may seem surprising; but once you hear Sille’s story, the surprise gives way to another…
See on the map →Kilistra
The Acts of the Apostles tells of a strange incident: when Paul and his companion Barnabas healed a man who had been unable to walk since birth in the city of Lystra in Lycaonia, the people…
See on the map →Lake Meke
In Anatolia, a blue eye is hung on the doors of houses and on babies’ cradles, to ward off the evil eye… But did you know that nature has made its own evil-eye bead on the steppe of Konya…
See on the map →Akşehir
One day Nasreddin Hodja came to a lakeshore with a bowl of yogurt starter and began stirring it into the water. Onlookers asked, “Hodja, what are you doing?” “Making yogurt of the lake.”…
See on the map →İvriz Rock Relief
Some two thousand seven hundred years ago, a king had himself carved into the rock beside a spring. But this time the king was not alone; facing him stood a god far larger than he was. So…
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