Places to visit in Manisa
4 places from Manisa province are on the map: Mount Spil, Sardis, Kula Volcanoes, and Lake Marmara & Bintepeler. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Mount Spil
In the last book of the Iliad, Homer has Achilles tell a mother’s story to old Priam, who has come to ask for the body of his son Hector. A mother who lost all her children, yet still had…
See on the map →Sardis
As Herodotus tells it, Croesus, King of Lydia and reckoned the richest ruler in the world, once hosted the Athenian sage Solon at his palace and, after showing him around his treasures…
See on the map →Kula Volcanoes
Describing these lands in the upper valley of the Gediz, the geographer Strabo calls them Katakekaumene, the “Burnt Land”. No trees but vines; pitch-black rocks, ash-gray hills, and the…
See on the map →Lake Marmara & Bintepeler
In the second book of the ‘Republic’, Plato tells the story of a Lydian shepherd. After a storm and an earthquake split the ground open, the shepherd climbs down into the earth and finds a…
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