Turkish Airlines Copyright © 1996 - 2013
- Welcome
- A City For All Seasons
- Tastes From Neighboring Salonica
- Carpathian Beauty Bratis
- City Of The Five Senses Bursa
- What Is The Big Picture Idea Of The Mesh
- China, From Ancient Civilization To Modernity
- The Musical Journey of Kudsi Erguner
- A Hundred Years Old, The Misir Apartments
- Treatment Center Turkey
- The Road To Olympics
- Unesco
- Istanbul Overtaken By Cinema
- A Sense Of Irreparable Loss
- Like Moths To A Flame
- Shopping Fest Full Speed Ahead!
- The Man Of La Mancha Musical
- Happy April 23rd!
- A Lovely Day In London
- Not Easy: Life In The City
- Prague’s Literary Spring
- 50 Years Late
- Özcan Yurdalan’s Karachi
- We’re Going To The Sun!
- Edremit In Early Spring
- Three Days In The City Of Angels
- 8 Countries 8 Tipping Traditions
A CITY FOR ALL SEASONS
A City For All Seasons
It took alp Alper exactly six years to complete his book, ‘Istanbul, a city for all seasons’, an extraordinary work like none produced up to now. The aim of the book, which is based on the concept of Istanbul as seen from the air in all four seasons, was to document the city’s changing face around the year and contribute to preserving its monuments as a world heritage.
Fenerbahçe takes its name from the lighthouse that once stood at the western tip of today’s peninsula. Appearing as Kelemiç in the Ottoman sources, the area came to be called Fener Garden after the lighthouse was built there in 1562.
Melancholy descends over the old waterfront mansions with the arrival of autumn. Uneasy breezes flit through the tree branches. The Bosphorus enters autumn mode and everything slowly turns a mournful yellow. Boats wait passenger-less at the landings and autumn is felt in every gust of wind.
The Hagia Sophia is the creation of two Anatolian architects, Isidoros of Miletus and Anthemios of Aydın. The church, construction of which was undertaken at the behest of the Emperor Justinian, was completed in five years. Historic Peninsula: exhibiting traces of life going back to 6,500 B.C., it is the heart of Istanbul, one of the world’s oldest cities, and capital of three empires from the Eastern Roman to the Ottoman.
According to German law historian Richard Honig, a university once stood on the hill where Istanbul University is located today. The central building of today’s university was built by an engineer, Ali Paşa, in 1865 as the Ottoman Empire’s War Ministry.
The history of the Islands begins with the Byzantines. They were referred to in western sources as ‘the Prince’s Islands’ since several members of the imperial dynasty were imprisoned in monasteries here during the period of the Eastern Roman Empire.
