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Miniatürk, Istanbul

Apr 042010

Miniatürk

Miniatürk is a miniature park situated at the north-eastern shore of Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey. It was unsealed May 2, 2003. Miniatürk covers a total area of 60,000 m2 (650,000 sq ft). It is the world’s largest miniature park with its 15,000 m2 (160,000 sq ft) model area. Miniatürk has 40,000 m2 (430,000 sq ft) of open space, 3,500 m2 (38,000 sq ft) of awninged area, 2,000 m2 (22,000 sq ft) of pools and waterways, and a parking aggregation with a capacity of 500 vehicles.

The park contains 105 models done in 1/25th scale. 45 of the structures are from Istanbul, 45 are from Anatolia, and 15 are from the Ottoman territories that today lie right of Turkey. Also featured are past structures like the Temple of Artemis at metropolis and the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus (now Bodrum). Additional expanse was reserved for potential future models.
Miniatürk, Istanbul GPS coordinates: 41° 3′ 36″ N, 28° 56′ 55″ E

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Officexpo Turkey 2012

Jan 31, 8:00pm at Cnr Expo Center, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul,

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Eurasia Com 2012

Mar 27, 8:00pm at Conrad Istanbul, Barbaros Blv.Yildiz Cad. Besiktas, Istanbul, MAR

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Solar Energy Technologies Fair 2012

Apr 12, 8:00pm at Istanbul Expo Centre, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul,

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Anzac Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli Turkey

Apr 22, 11:00am at Anzac Day service, Dalbasti sokak no 5, İstanbul,

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ISK Sodex Istanbul 2012

May 02, 8:00pm at Cnr Expo Center, Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul,

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Pera Museum, Istanbul

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Nov 242008

Pera Museum is a museum in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 2005 by the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation.The museum is housed in a renovated historical building, which was originally constructed in 1893 by the architect Achille Manoussos in the Tepebasi neighborhood of Istanbul. The building is one of the most significant in Pera and served as the Bristol Hotel for a long period. Pera Museum’s permanent collections include the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation’s collection of Orientalist art, which consists of more than three hundred paintings. This rich collection brings together important works by European artists inspired by the Ottoman world from the 17th century to the early 19th. The collection, which presents a vast visual panorama of the last two centuries of the Ottoman Empire, includes works by Osman Hamdi Bey, regarded by art historians as the genre’s only “native Orientalist” including his most famous painting The Tortoise Trainer. Other notable permanent collections are Anatolian weights and measures, Kutahya tiles and ceramics. Istanbul sightseeing tours.
GPS travel coordinates: 40°59’20.14″N, 28°42’15.28″E

Istanbul Archaeology Museums, Istanbul

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Nov 062008

The Istanbul Archaeology Museums is an archeological museum, located in the Eminonu district of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gulhane Park and Topkapi Palace. The site of the museums actually belonged to the Topkapi Palace outer gardens. The museum was founded by decree as the Imperial Museum. When it opened to the public in 1891, it was the first one to feature Turkish art. The first curator was Osman Hamdi Bey, who was also the founder of the museum. Since the imperial decree protecting cultural goods in the Ottoman empire was enforced, many governors from the different provinces would send in found artefacts to the capital city. In that way the museum was able to amass a great collection. Upon its 100th anniversary in 1991, the Museum received the European Council Museum Award, particularly for the renovations made to the lower floor halls in the main building and the new displays in the other buildings. Istambul travel guides.
GPS travel destinations: 41° 0′ 42″ N, 28° 58′ 53″ E

Galata tower, Istanbul

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Jun 072008

The Galata Tower, also called Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) by the Genoese and Megalos Pyrgos (The Great Tower) by the Byzantines, is located in Istanbul, Turkey, to the north of the Golden Horn. One of the city’s most striking landmarks, it is a huge, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline on the Galata side of the Golden Horn. The tower was built as Christea Turris in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople. It was the apex of the fortifications surrounding the Genoese citadel of Galata. The current tower should not be confused with the old Tower of Galata, an original Byzantine tower, named Megalos Pyrgos, which controlled the northern end of the massive sea chain that closed the entrance of the Golden Horn. This tower was on a different site and was largely destroyed during the Fourth Crusade in 1204. The 66.90 meter tower (62.59 m without the ornament on top, 51.65 m at the observation deck) was the city’s tallest structure when built. The elevation at ground level is 35 meters above sea-level. The upper section of the tower with the conical cap was slightly modified in several restorations during the Ottoman period when it was used as an observation tower for spotting fires. Istambul is best travel destinations.
GPS travel coordinates: 41° 1′ 32″ N, 28° 58′ 27″ E

Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul

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May 122008

The Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, located at the European side of the Bosphorus, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1922, apart from a twenty-year interval (1889-1909) in which the Yildiz Palace was used. Dolmabahce Palace was the first European-style palace in Istanbul and was built by Sultan Abdülmecid between 1842 and 1853, at a cost of five million Ottoman gold pounds, the equivalent of 35 tons of gold. Fourteen tons of gold in the form of gold leaf were used to gild the ceilings of the palace. The world’s largest Bohemian crystal chandelier, a gift from Queen Victoria, is at the center hall. The chandelier has 750 lamps and weighs 4.5 tons. Dolmabahce has the largest collection of Bohemian and Baccarat crystal chandeliers in the world, and one of the great staircases has bannisters of Baccarat crystal. Great travel attractions.
GPS tourist destination: 41° 2′ 22″ N, 29° 0′ 6″ E

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

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Mar 122007

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Hagia Sophia, (the Church of) Holy Wisdom, now known as the Ayasofya Museum, was an early Christian Church and later an Eastern Orthodox church which was transformed into a mosque in 1453 by the Turks, and converted into a museum in 1935. It is located in Istanbul, Turkey. It is regularly considered one of the greatest, and most beautiful buildings in history. Its conquest by the Ottomans at the fall of Constantinople is considered one of the great tragedies of Christianity by the Greek Orthodox faithful.

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The name comes from the Greek name meaning “Church of the Holy Wisdom of God”. It is also known as Sancta Sophia in Latin and Ayasofya in Turkish. Although it is sometimes called “Saint Sophia” in English, it is not named after a saint named Sophia — the Greek word sofia means “wisdom.”
It was constructed in five years, from 532 to 537, and designed by Isidore of Miletus.
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul GPS coordinates:41.0085° N 28.9800° E

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