Places to visit in Muğla
16 places from Muğla province are on the map: Bodrum Castle, Gümüşlük & Yalıkavak, Marmaris, Datça, Knidos, Ölüdeniz & Babadağ, and 10 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Bodrum Castle
Herodotus, regarded as the father of history, begins his great work by saying that he writes so that what people have done may not be forgotten with time. So where was the man who wrote…
See on the map →Gümüşlük & Yalıkavak
“Men of Myndos, bar your gates, lest your city run away!” This barbed remark by the Cynic philosopher Diogenes is said to have been made when he saw the enormous gates of a tiny city…
See on the map →Marmaris
Can you imagine a town’s name being born of a sultan’s anger? That is exactly the most famous story told about Marmaris… Legend has it that in 1522, Suleiman the Magnificent, returning from…
See on the map →Datça
“Do not fence off the isthmus, nor dig it through; for Zeus would have made it an island, had he wished.” According to Herodotus, these words were the answer the oracle of Delphi gave the…
See on the map →Knidos
Would a city sell its most precious possession in exchange for having all its debts wiped away? According to Pliny, King Nicomedes of Bithynia made the Knidians exactly this offer: he would…
See on the map →Ölüdeniz & Babadağ
Why would a sea be called “dead”? Because it has no waves, because it makes no sound, or because it lies motionless even when a storm breaks? The answer of Ölüdeniz, the “dead sea”, is all…
See on the map →Fethiye
Who interprets dreams? In antiquity, the answer to this question was often the name of a single city: Telmessos. The seers of this coast we now call Fethiye were famed for their skill in…
See on the map →Butterfly Valley & Kabak
One night the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi dreams he is a butterfly; he flits from flower to flower, knowing nothing but the lightness of his wings. When he wakes, he is confused: is he…
See on the map →Saklıkent Canyon
Saklamak: to hide… You hide a thing so it won’t be lost, so no one sees it, or so that only one who truly seeks it will find it. Perhaps it was the third that gave Saklıkent, the “hidden…
See on the map →Dalyan & Kaunos
“As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity,” says Homer in the ‘Iliad’. The wind scatters the leaves to the ground, and when spring comes the forest puts forth new ones; so too…
See on the map →Lake Köyceğiz
Do trees weep? Look at the forests on the shores of Lake Köyceğiz and saying “yes” isn’t hard at all… For here live the sweetgum trees that grow almost nowhere but southwestern Anatolia…
See on the map →Akyaka & Gökova
What happens when a poet decides to build a house? Akyaka’s answer reveals itself as you walk its streets… Nail Çakırhan, who wrote poetry in his youth and never trained as an architect…
See on the map →Göcek & 12 Islands
Imagine a painter drawing a fish on a rock; not on a canvas, not on paper, but directly on a rock at the edge of the sea… In 1974, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu did exactly that at Taşyaka, one of…
See on the map →Lake Bafa & Herakleia
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.” With this line, the English poet John Keats opens his long poem ‘Endymion’. So who was Endymion, and what did he have to do with eternity? Come, let’s…
See on the map →Sedir Island
What does a lover bring the one they love? Flowers, jewels, perhaps a poem… According to the story of Sedir Island, the answer is far more ambitious: a beach. Legend has it that when Mark…
See on the map →Bozburun & Selimiye
Have you ever thought about where a boat is born? Seeing those elegant gulets gliding over the sea, most of us wonder where they are going; yet the real story is where they come from… The…
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