Category: Turkey
IT IS against the law of Islam for anyone to paint a portrait. On the Day of Judgment, the prophet Mohammed is reported to have said, painters will be …
WOLF MUSEUM Everyone knows Hugo Wolf as an Austrian composer, but Windischgraz, where he was born in 1860, is now Slovenj Gradec, just on the Slovenian side of the …
TARTINI MUSEUM Giuseppe Tartini, the greatest violinist-composer and violin pedagogue of the mid-18th century and pioneer student of acoustics, spent all his working life in Italy. His home was …
ON THE BOSPHORUS No stay in Istanbul can be considered complete without an excursion by boat along the magical and legendary Bosphorus, the fabled and renowned winding strait that …
HISTORY Though the city is thorougly modem in appearance, its origins date back to a Hittite settlement in the 2nd millennium BC. In the 8th century BC the Phrygians …