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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

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Ankara

Ankara City Tour

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country’s second largest city after Istanbul and it’s about 455 km by drive and 1 hour flight from Istanbul. There is also train between Istanbul - Ankara. Population of the Ankara 4.432,719 and once very highlighted place to visit during traveling to Turkey. Also, Ankara is on of the destination in the Turkey package tours.

The city has a mean elevation of 938 meters, and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million. As turkey advisor, with many ancient cities, Ankara has gone by several names over the ages. It has been identified with the Hittite cult center Ankuses, although this remains a matter of debate. In classical antiquity and during the medieval period, the city was known as Ankara in Greek and Ancyra in Latin; the Galatian Celtic name was probably a similar variant. Following its annexation by the Seljuk Turks in 1073, the city became known in many European languages as Angora, a usage which continued until its official renaming to Ankara under the Turkish Postal Service Law of 1930.

Another proposed theory show that the original name of the city might be taken over from the Angara River of Asia by the invading Seljuk Turks. Centrally located in Anatolia, Ankara is an important commercial and industrial city. It is the center of the Turkish Government, and houses all foreign embassies. It is an important crossroads of trade, strategically located at the center of Turkeys highway and railway networks, and serves as the marketing center for the surrounding agricultural area. The city was famous for its long haired Angora goat and its prized wool , a unique breed of cat (Angora cat), white rabbits and their prized wool (Angora wool), pears, honey, and the regions musket grapes. Ankara city tour and Istanbul to Ankara tours.