Places to visit in Şanlıurfa
6 places from Şanlıurfa province are on the map: Balıklıgöl & Urfa Castle, Göbeklitepe, Harran, Halfeti, Birecik, and Karahantepe. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Balıklıgöl & Urfa Castle
“O fire, be coolness and safety upon Abraham!” In Urfa, this command from the Qur’an is not just a line of sacred scripture but the story of a lake that still ripples in the very heart of…
See on the map →Göbeklitepe
“First came the temple, then the city.” This saying, attributed to Klaus Schmidt, the German archaeologist who introduced Göbeklitepe to the world, turned much of what we thought we knew…
See on the map →Harran
Imagine a plain bearing the footprints of a prophet, the defeat of a Roman army, the observations of scholars who mapped the heavens, and domed houses that look like beehives… All on the…
See on the map →Halfeti
Have you ever imagined that a rose could be black? The karagül, the black rose that blooms in Halfeti, is actually born with deep red petals; but in the summer sun it takes on such a dark…
See on the map →Birecik
Can you imagine a journey on which birds show people the way? According to a belief told in Birecik, each year when migration time came, the bald ibises would show pilgrims the road to…
See on the map →Karahantepe
“I embraced so many, calling each a friend / My one faithful love is the black earth,” says Âşık Veysel. To understand the earth’s faithfulness, you need only look at Karahantepe; for this…
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