Social Events
- First Timers Get-together Dinner - Optional Dinner, 5 July 2011
- Welcome Dinner – 6 July 2011
- Accompanying Persons Tour - 6 July 2011
- Gala Dinner – 7 July 2011
- Library Tour – 8 July 2011 - Süleymaniye Manuscript Library
- Saturday Excursion –9 July 2011
- Sunday Excursion – 10 July 2011
| First Timers Get-together Dinner - Optional Dinner Tuesday, 5 July 2011 |
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First Timers Get-together will take place at a fish restaurant (http://www.alimento.com.tr/) on the Bosphorus. The price of this dinner is included in the registration fee only for the First-Timers. Others who are willing to join the group still can by selecting the Optional Dinner option on the Registration Form. It costs 50 Euros and it includes the transfer to the restaurant and way back to conference hotels.
Maps of Sarıyer - Alimento
| Welcome Dinner – Wednesday, 6 July 2011 Hosted by the Rector of Koç University |
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| Accompanying Persons Tour - Wednesday, 6 July 2011 |
Price: € 53 / per person
Price includes:
- Services of professional English speaking guides
- Transportation in air-conditioned coaches
- Admission fees for sites/museums
- Gratuities to guides and drivers
- Service charges and taxes
- bottled water available on vehicles
Price excludes:
- Lunch and charges incurred as a result of delays beyond control of Tour
Afternoon departure from conference hotels for the Orientation Tour, the Spice Bazaar and the Dolmabahçe Palace. İstanbul…. Constantinople…. Byzantine…. with each name an empire and with each empire a culture and an art that produced some of the world’s grandest monuments to human ingenuity and power. In İstanbul, time is measured in centuries and its art and architecture in degrees of splendor. This scenic drive will give you the opportunity to see the European and Asian sides of İstanbul. We will pass sites including the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn. Visit to the 17th century Spice Market, where you can find a vast diversity of spices, sacks of henna, many varieties of oil and herbs, and of course the world’s very best Turkish delight. The day will finish with a visit to the Dolmabahçe Palace; stretching expansively along the European shore of the Bosphorus, this ornate Baroque masterpiece, built in 1854 was the home of the late Ottoman Sultans.
| Gala Dinner - Thursday, 7 July 2011 |
Dinner cruise on the Bosphorus.
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| Library Tour - Friday, 8 July 2011 - Süleymaniye Manuscript Library |
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The Süleymaniye Complex, which also houses the library, was built by the chief architect at the royal court, Mimar Sinan for Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, and was completed in 1549-1557. This complex with its health-related elements and library, contributed to the development and progress of science.
Süleymaniye Manuscript Library was founded as a modern library in 1918. The Süleymaniye has now five affiliate libraries: Atıf Efendi Library, Hacı Selim Ağa Library, Köprülü Library, Nuruosmaniye Library, and Ragıp Paşa Library. It is one of the richest centers in the field of oriental studies as it contains the largest collection of Islamic manuscripts in the world. The library houses nearly 131,000 works, including manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian, printed materials in Ottoman Turkish and modern Turkish, English, French, German and other languages.
The Library has very specialized services including microfilm service, digitization department, restoration and research center. Microfilm Service has been set up in 1950.
Süleymaniye Manuscript Library is known to be the only library in the world that is accommodating the manuscript copies of all the survived works of Ibn Sina who was a great physician, scientist and a philosopher. Some of them are dated as far back as 11th century.
Maps of Sarıyer - Süleymaniye Manuscript Library
| Saturday Excursion - 9 July 2011 - İSTANBUL |
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Price: € 83 / per person
Price includes:
- Services of professional English speaking guides
- Transportation in air-conditioned coaches
- Lunch
- Bottled water available on vehicles
- Admission fees for sites/museums
- Gratuities to guides and drivers
- Service charges and taxes
Price excludes:
- Drinks at lunch and charges incurred as a result of delays beyond control of Tour
Morning departure from the conference hotels. Drive to Sultanahmet, the ancient quarter of the city, site of old Byzantium. Visit the Hagia Sophia, which was built by the Emperor Justinian and inaugurated in 537 AD. For over nine centuries it was the center of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and it remains the world’s 4th largest church. It contains some of the finest mosaics to have survived from the Byzantine period, including a truly remarkable mosaic of the Virgin and Child. Proceed to the Underground Cistern, which is another work of Justinian: this is the most impressive of İstanbul’s ancient cisterns with a roof supported by more than 300 columns. Your next stop is the Blue Mosque, so called because of its exquisite İznik tile decoration. Thousands and thousands of these extremely precious tiles line the walls in a mesmerizing display of floral extravagance. The mosque’s courtyard is exceptionally beautiful, and it is the only mosque in İstanbul to have six minarets.
Lunch inside Topkapı Palace in the Konyalı Restaurant, while watching the ships pass through the Bosphorus.
Afternoon visit to the Topkapı Palace Museum, for over four centuries home to the Ottoman sultans. It was from this palace that the sultans ruled an empire that in its heyday stretched from Western Iran to the Atlantic Ocean. It is a sprawling and surprisingly unassuming complex, but it houses a remarkable collection of priceless jewelry, porcelain and costumes. Legend claims that the ancient rod on display in the Pavilion of Holy Relics is the one used by Moses to part the Red Sea, but most visitors will be impressed by the Kanjar, emerald encrusted dagger and the subject of the 1964 Peter Ustinov film ¨Topkapı¨.
Move on to İstanbul’s world-renowned Grand Bazaar. The Bazaar was built between 1455-1461.
Map of Sarıyer - Hagia Sophia - Blue Mosque - Topkapı Palace Museum- Grand Bazaar
| Sunday Excursion - 10 July 2011 - EDİRNE |
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Price: € 83 / per person
Price includes:
- Services of professional English speaking guides
- Transportation in air-conditioned coaches
- Lunch
- Bottled water available on vehicles
- Admission fees for sites/museums
- Gratuities to guides and drivers
- Service charges and taxes
Price excludes:
- Drinks at lunch and charges incurred as a result of delays beyond control of Tour
Morning departure from the conference hotels for Edirne (driving time: 3 hours). Beautifully located on the banks of the Meriç, Arda and Tunca rivers and adorned with several magnificent mosques, Edirne is like an open-air museum of Ottoman architecture. We start our tour with a visit to the Eski Camii (Old Mosque), which dates back to 1414. Our next stop is the Bedesten Bazaar, which dates from 1418. Proceed to the Üçşerefeli Camii (1447), which has four different minarets, one of them with three balconies, hence the name meaning “Mosque with Three Balconies”. After lunch at a traditional restaurant, it is the time to visit the impressive Selimiye Mosque, designed by the Grand Architect, a contemporary of Michelangelo, Mimar Sinan for Sultan Selim II. The mosque thought to be the masterpiece of Mimar Sinan. The amazing dome of the mosque rises 43m from the ground and has a diameter of 31m. The interior furnishing of the Selimiye Mosque are exquisite, from the ornate wooden kursu (prayer-reader’s platform) to the delicately carved marble mimber (pulpit) to the outstanding İznik faience in and around the mihrab.
Our next stop is the Health Museum which was awarded Council of Europe Museum Prize for the Year 2004. The museum houses an impressive display of dioramas and information about holistic healing methods which were in use around the 15th century. Built by Ottoman physician and poet Shuuri Hasan Efendi, all of the hospital’s services were rendered free of charge. Patients in Beyezid’s hospital were treated with music therapy and aromatherapy. The hospital staff included 10 singers and musicians playing the ney, violin, santur and ud. Certain modes of Turkish music were found to be particularly beneficial for different ailments.
Health Museum's introductory film.
Drive back to İstanbul late in the afternoon.
Map of Istanbul - Edirne
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