From your Wikipedia link:

> Restoration taking place in 2014-2015 has been suspended after several major works were botched and local media brought it to the attention of the public.

That’s too bad, I’ve heard of that happening with paintings fairly frequently. I wish institutions that weren’t experienced in restoration work would just focus on preservation, mostly climate control and protection from UV exposure.

There was a famous case of this not too long ago. The painting was "only" from 1930.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Mart%C3%ADnez_and_G...

I remember when that happened. News of it spread all over the internet and it became known as the 'potato Jesus' meme.

That looks like it would be worth the trip all by itself.

Turkey is pretty fab if you’re a history buff. There’s so much to see. Just search for historical landmarks anywhere in Turkey on Google Maps and you’ll see what I mean.

Incredible links, thanks for sharing. I had the fortune to visit Turkey when I was younger (Istanbul, Kusadasi) but didn't fully appreciate it. My sense of Anatolia is there is so much rich historical treasure, loosely scattered across a huge country with not much in between and difficult to get places. How and where would you suggest to start, if i wanted to plan a trip?

There's so much to see, I'd have a hard time even recommending a place to start. I haven't been to a place I didn't like yet. I decided that at some future point, I'm simply going to come back and pick up where I left off.

What I did personally was fly into Istanbul, then I drove to Göreme, down to Antakya, and then started driving back up along the coast. There's so much to see, I'm kind of overwhelmed. It's a good problem to have :)

I thought Antioch was part of Syria? Maybe it was just part of the region that was historically known as Syria?

Part of Turkey at the moment => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch