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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Galatasaray Museum

Galatasaray Museum

Galatasaray Museum (officially Galatasaray University Culture & Art Center) (Turkish: Galatasaray Muzesi) is a cultural center in Istanbul / Turkey, founded in 1868 by Ali Sami Yen, to inform the society of the traditions and history of Galatasaray. The museum is open to the public everyday from 10:00am until 19:00pm except Mondays. The museum is in beyoglu and you can use public transportation from old city.

The museum initially opened at Kalamıs Bay. Later in 1919, it was moved to Galatasaray High School. The museum building, formerly known as Galatasaray Post Office, was restored and remodelled to suit a museum. Galatasaray Museum was renovated and reopened in 2009 with a very successful and contemporary exhibition concept.

Galatasaray Museum

Friday, December 28, 2012

Dolmabahce Museum

Dolmabahçe Palace

Dolmabahçe Palace is palace coming to pass across Uskudar, on left shore in entrance by seaway from Marmara Sea to Bogazici, in its chapter surviving between Kabataş and Beşiktaş of the coastline, reaching out from Karaköy to Sarıyer.Area where Dolmabahçe Palace is situated today was a big cove of Bogazici, on which Ottoman Kaptan Pasha would anchor ships. There is public transportation from Old City (Sultanahmet) that from Sultanahment station to Kabatas. (Last station of the tram). The Dolmabahce palace 200 meter from Kabatas tram station. There is daily Istanbul sgitseeing tour which dolmabahce museum included from 08:00am till 17:00pm.

Dolmabahçe palace still maintains its old beauty.The facade of the palace, built by Sultan Abdülmecid I, extends for 600 metres on the European shore of the Bosphorus. In a mixture of European architectural styles, it was built between 1843 and 1855 to a design by Garabet Amira Balyan, an Armenian, and his son Nigoğayos Balyan. The palace is composed of three parts; the Mabeyn-i Hümâyûn (or Selamlik, the quarters reserved for the men), Muayede Salonu (the ceremonial hall) and the Harem-i Hümâyûn (the Harem, the residential apartments of the family of the Sultan). The palace has an area of 45,000 m2 (11.2 acres), and contains 285 rooms, 46 halls, 6 baths and 68 toilets. The famous Crystal Staircase has the shape of a double horseshoe and is built of Baccarat crystal, brass and mahogany. The palace includes a large number of Hereke palace carpets made by the Hereke Imperial Factory. Also featured are 150-year-old bearskin rugs originally presented to the Sultan as a gift by the Tsar of Russia. The palace is managed by Directorate of National Palaces responsible to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Dolmabahce Palace Museum is open to public on weekdays from 9:00 to 15:00, except Mondays and Thursdays.

You can contact once local turkey travel agent to organize your turkey trip with full arrangement.

Dolmabahçe Palace

Monday, December 24, 2012

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

The Istanbul Archaeology Museums are a group of three archeological museums in Istanbul city, located in the Eminonu, near Hagia Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace and Blue Mosque. The Istanbul Archaeology Museums are consists of three. Archaeological Museum (in the main building), Museum of the Ancient Orient, Museum of IslamicArt (in the Tiled Kiosk). It houses over one million objects that represent almost all of the eras and civilizations in world history.The museum has a large collection of Turkish, Hellenistic and Roman artifacts.

Archaeology Museum is open everyday that you can visit during your Istanbul tours and you can include on your Old City tour of Istanbul.

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Friday, December 21, 2012

Konya

Konya Tour

Konya was inhabited during the Late Copper Age around 3000 BC. It under the authority of the Hittites around 1500 BC. These were overtaken by the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC. The Phrygians set up their kingdom in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC. Xenophon describes Iconium (Konya) as the last city of Phrygia. The region was overwhelmed by Cimmerian invaders c. 690 BC. It was later part of the Persian Empire, until Darius III was defeated by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. Alexanders empire broke up shortly after his death and the town came under the rule of Seleucus I Nicator. During the Hellenistic period the town was ruled by the kings of Pergamon. As Attalus III, the last king of Pergamon, was about to die without an heir, he bequeathed his kingdom to Rome.

Under the rule of emperor Claudius, the citys name was changed to Claudioconium, and during the rule of emperor Hadrianus to Colonia Aelia Hadriana. The city was filled with refugees from the Khwarezmid Empire fleeing the advance of the Mongol Empire at 1220s, Sultan Alā al-Dīn Kayqubā equipped the town and built a palace on top of the citadel. In 1228 he invited Bahaeddin Veled and his son Mevlana (Rumi), the founder of the Mevlevi order, to settle in Konya. Mevlana, simply as Rumi in English-speaking world, was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of the Indians have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries.