Places to visit in Mersin
9 places from Mersin province are on the map: Kızkalesi & Cennet-Cehennem, Gülek Pass & Karboğazı, Silifke & Göksu Delta, Anamur & Anemurium, Mersin, Tarsus, and 3 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Kızkalesi & Cennet-Cehennem
Once upon a time, a king who ruled in Korykos had an only daughter… Legend has it that the soothsayers foretold she would one day die of a snakebite. To save his daughter from this fate…
See on the map →Gülek Pass & Karboğazı
“The Avşar clans rose and moved on, / Those slow-moving clans are ours, / Arab horses make the far near, / The roads over the high mountains are ours,” sings Dadaloğlu. So which is the…
See on the map →Silifke & Göksu Delta
Which of us hasn’t heard the folk song that begins “Oh, the yogurt of Silifke…”? While the song goes on praising Silifke’s yogurt and its cream, the town’s history also has pages that are…
See on the map →Anamur & Anemurium
Ask where the southernmost tip of Anatolia is, and many of us would pause over the map for a moment… The answer is Cape Anamur. On clear days, they say, the mountains of Cyprus appear on…
See on the map →Mersin
Have you ever wondered why a grammatical error is called a “solecism” in English? The word comes from the ancient city of Soloi, just west of today’s Mersin. Legend has it that the Greek…
See on the map →Tarsus
“The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne, / Burn’d on the water…” writes Shakespeare in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’. But which water was that barge on? In 41 BC, Cleopatra glided up the…
See on the map →Uzuncaburç
Can a tower give a village its name? In the cool highlands of the Taurus north of Silifke, one village’s answer is written in stone: Uzuncaburç, “the tall tower”. In its center stands a…
See on the map →Alahan Monastery
Where does a person go to turn their back on the world? Some go to the desert, some to an island, some to a mountainside… In the 5th century AD, a group of monks found their answer in the…
See on the map →Gilindire Cave & Aydıncık
If a cave that had never seen daylight for thousands of years, whose existence no one even suspected, one day opened its door to us, what would we find? Stones growing patiently in the…
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