Anatolia’s Rose Garden: Isparta

Isparta is a province that placed at the Mediterranean Region, and famous with lakes, roses and rugs. Antic cities, national parks, and caves are places to be seen in province. 

Although roses are harvested in May and June, in Isparta, it is actually rose reason all the time.With its natural and historical wealth, the rose city located in the center of the Lakes district will win your heart, too.

Rosa Damascena (aka: Rose of Isparta)

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The rose is the most meaningful flower, the symbol of love, elegance, and innocence. And its penetrating scent, which works itself so fully into the human body?The scent of the rose is mentioned even in old Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, and Indian sources.

The entire Divan literature is in love with it. In Sufism, it represents metaphorical love. It is a bridge to be crossed to reach divine love, an instrument that prepares the nightingale for true love. It is this rose that is a never-ending season in Isparta.

The people we meet as we enjoy our breakfast in a café tell us that Isparta does not show its beauties openly. They say that a person will fall in love with it as they get to know it better and wander around its streets.

The city turns into a huge rose garden in May and June, though traces of the love felt for roses are evident throughout the year. The fine, pink petals of the Isparta rose – which are turned into dozens of products from Turkish delight to soap, perfume, and lotion – can be found on every corner of the city, perhaps on a young woman’s necklace, on windowsills, in the patterns of tablecloths, or in the colors of Ispartaspor…