Renaissance Istanbul

... short stopover to swap our hiking boots for flip-flops and then we're back to the continent, this time the inspiration of the renaissance, Tuscany in Italy where we have a wedding to attend and no doubt plenty of Chianti to drink. From here we head east, ...

... for a few days and travel to Istanbul to provide training to the local staff in Turkey. Again, an amazing hotel. The Marriott Renaissance Polat Hotel is a modern highrise hotel. My room was on the 24th or 25th floor and it overlooked the Bosphorus - I ...

... prior. They made me stuff my purse into my laptop bag, which was already full. From London, it was a 4 1/2 hour flight to Istanbul. We stayed at the Rennaissance, near the airport and left the next day for Antalya. The first thing I noticed about Turkey ...

... in the center dome.  It was the biggest church in the world for 1000 years and rivals the great churches of the renaissance.  It is still among the 20 largest churches in the world.  When emperor Justinian completed it, he cried "Solomon, ...

... ; completed in 537 AD by emperor Justinian. It stood as the grandest dome in all of Europe until the Florentine Renaissance. Only in 1453, when the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, was it converted into a mosque. The structure remained virtually the ...

... km from Sultanahmet Square,roughly 25 min by taxi,1 km rate is 2.5TL). It is often neglected splendor of the Byzantine Renaissance by the guests since the Museum is far away from central attractions. Beside the distance, the breathtaking mosaics are the ...

... church is famous were largely completed in the early 1300s -- they are said to be considered the finest examples of the Palaeologian Renaissance that exist today. After the Ottomans took over, the church was converted to a mosque in the late 1500s. ...

Once landed in Turkey, my co-worker and I walked out the airport and waited for our shuttle at the stop.  Only then we realized the sign shown no shuttle available from 11 till 2.  Strangely the gentlemen I spoke over the phone prior stepping ...

... so I used all my Marriot Reward Points that I've accumulated during the year to exchange for a night's stay in Antalya Renaissance. We arrived at the Antalya Otogar (bus station) around 8:30pm from Denizli then catch a dolmus to Beldibi. Luckily the ...

Greetings from Istanbul! No, you haven't clicked on the wrong travel blog, I'm just a little behind. Where did we leave off? Ah, yes, the magnificent surprise in Buenos Aires. It came at the Buenos Aires airport, and I'll give you a hint..it's not ...

... go on my own. I would like to see it. The church is siginificant because it is a turning point of Medieval architecture and Renaissance Architecture. Davinci and Brahmante both worked on the church. I have to jump in here and mention that we saw a lot of ...

... of reform movements and established education institutions taking after the western institutions which had shown great developments after the Renaissance. The declaration of the "Tanzimat" Reform movement in 1839 is considered a major link in the chain ...

... Embassy in Palazzo Margherita and the French Embassy in Palazzo Farnese.  The Barberini Palace is a masterwork of the Renaissance by Bernini and Borromini who were pitted against each other to construct the most elaborate of the papal ...

... . An Italian architect took over finishing the last tower, and when it was finally done, dropped the scaffolding to reveal... a Renaissance tower. About as different from Gothic as you can possibly imagine. So the cathedral has two dark towers with fancy ...

... clear meat soup. After this substantial repast I walk past the ruins of the Summer palace of King Matthias (built in the Italian Renaissance style, the first time it was used in Europe outside Italy)and up to the castle that was built to repel further ...

... of them valid reasons in their own right. The first is for the artistic legacy we just mentioned, especially the paintings of the Renaissance period that Meg studied through high school and university. Another reason we're here is the food - we both love ...

... only place never ruled by Muslims. Most of Rome's monuments date from the latter period, especially during and after the Renaissance. The world headquarters of Roman Catholic Church is in Vatican City, an independent country located inside the city of ...

... if they had bacon and eggs she just looked at me blankly. Not sure if I'm jet lagged or if the Thai sleeping pills are experiencing a renaissance, but hit the wall about 11 am and went back to the hotel for a nanna nap. Slept until four and then went for ...

... sculptures in the Vatican translated Baroque art into something more than just an Art History term for what came after the Renaissance, so this book turned such concepts as nationalism and romanticism from bullet points to memorize on the AP Euro for ...

... years of history and the place where modern civilisation was founded (you knew that, right?). Having gotten our fill of the Renaissance stuff in Florence we were here to ogle at the legacy left behind by the all-conquering (except the little landmass now ...