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Mansions of Mudurnu

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From the business of poultry to the tourism:

The Mansions of Mudurnu

The phrase “Mudurnu resembles its mountains. It gives out a sound but it cannot move, it waits that you go to it” is no more valid. The mansions of Mudurnu together with the mountains give out a sound due to the tourism.

Mudurnu where the biggest poultry integrated facilities of Turkey had been founded lost unfortunately its privileged position in the economy after the economic crisis in 2000. Nearly half of the district with a population of 6 thousands realised suddenly that they were unemployed. Besides that, the chicken farms in the neighbour villages doing business with Mudurnu Tavukculuk went bankrupt. The crisis gave rise to a hopeless atmosphere both in the district and the villages.

Mudurnu covered with snow appears so beautiful in winter too.

The poultry business ended, the turn is to the tourism The Mayor of Mudurnu Mehmet Karakafoglu, the authorities of the district, the Governorship of Bolu, the witnesses of these negative facts began to search solutions to the problem of unemployment in the district. They had an example in the neighbourhood… Safranbolu and “the houses” inspired them. Because they had houses, mansions, cultural and historical legacy like “the houses of Safranbolu”. But the poultry sector was so big that the undertakers didn`t have the opportunity to benefit from this rich legacy. The business of poultry provided a good source of income until the crisis. No one could think of such a catastrophe.

THEY HAVE NOW 100 BEDS

But they recovered soon. The works related to the financial source for the mansions of Mudurnu put under conservation previously started. Due to the support provided by the governorship, the mansions of Mudurnu have been restored. Haci Abdullahlar Mansion, Keyvanlar Mansion and Haytalar Mansion have been restored in conformity with their original structure.

Mudurnu which hadn t even one bed provided with touristic standards has now 100 beds due to these mansions. A pan of the Turkish bath located next to the Handicraft Office of the Municipality, built in the era of Yildinm Beyazit and still functional has been offered to the tourism as Ha- mam Cafe and the Culture House of the Municipality; the bus stops of the district have been harmonized with the local architecture.

Mudurnu feels enthusiastic in the field of tourism due to the Mountain Houses in the Forests in Dcgirmenyeri belonging to the couple Tulay and UIvi Iigaz who are passionates of Mudurnu. Yanska.si Mansion. Armutpuiar Mansion, Gokdemir Touristic Facilities and Village Market, Babas Thermal Springs, Mudurnu Natural Life Hotel, Unsal Hotel.

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Vienna coffee house tradition

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An ancient, still popular Vienna coffee house tradition known far beyond Austria`s borders dictates that the honoured guest of the establishment should always, and automatically, be served a small glass of water on the small silver tray beside his or her melange, kleiner Brauner or grofier Schwarzer.

This glass of water should not just be free of charge, of course. It should also be replaced with a fresh one the moment it has been imbibed by the guest, certainly in those coffee houses which keep to the old coffee house traditions, even if the guest has since ordered another coffee. And in really, really good coffee houses, this water will, should need be, continue to be served all afternoon, as the guest reads one newspaper after another or chats away to other customers.

And this is why the struggle over the price of water in Viennese guesthouses has become not so much a question of profitability and commerce as a true cultural battle. In Vienna, that small glass of water is a symbol of hospitality. An outmoded, almost anticapitalistic, egalitarian expression of the idea that, even if you are not blessed with a bulging wallet and can only afford the smallest of small black coffees today, you remain as welcome at a Viennese coffee house as a better-off guest.

Real coffee house

The coffee house, after all, is supposed to be a place to bring all in the community together, young and old, rich and poor. This water symbolises the idea that a real coffee house is more than just a gastronomic business oriented to nought but profit; rather, it is a communal meeting place, a place to be together. And it is a nonchalant nicety, because such a glass of water, which comes out of the tap and so has to be paid for by the coffee house owner through his rates whether served to customers or not, might just as well be served to a thirsty guest as used to wash the dishes.

Which is why it is really, really getting up the noses of the people of Vienna that simply because they have poured it into a small glass and put it on the guest`s table, some restaurateurs are now demanding money for a product they will quite happily waste by leaving their dishwashers on, and gallons of which they pour on their floors. In Vienna, that just isn`t on. The Viennese don`t like it. The only ones who buy it are tourists who are used to nothing else. In Vienna, however, it is not normal -and hopefully never will be.

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Vienna`s Artistic Oasis

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Vienna`s Artistic Oasis Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

The Museums Quartier is one of the world`s largest artistic and cultural spaces, and the urbane living room at the heart of the Austrian capital. This year, Vienna`s meeting place for those with a passion for culture is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its opening with a wide range of events – from Austria`s first and only open-air cartoon exhibition (to 31 July) through the “Sound Heaven” (10 June to 1 October) to the great Open Air Festival, with live music acts and a spectacular 3-D projection (30 June).

Homage To The Rat Pack

They sing, swing and step: Reamonn`s Rea Garvey, Xavier Naidoo, Sasha and comedy star Michael Mittermeier continue their smash hit tour with the Big Band, and are guesting at the Wiener Stadthalle on 9 and 10 December. “Alive and Swingin`” is the name of their tribute to the legendary appearances by Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop in the early1960s. So the public can look forward to a musical journey back in time this winter. Coot.

Visionary And Lateral Thinker

From 30 June to 3 October, the Archi- tekturzentrum Wien is devoting a show entitled “It still amazes me that / became an architect” to architect and artist Alexander Brodsky. The show is designed to offer an insight into the “other Moscow”, which contrasts starkly with Russia`s breakneck, often untamed development elsewhere. Brodsky`s architecture is low-key by comparison, and deeply-rooted in the traditional building culture of the country. For the Architekturzentrum Wien, he is putting into practice a “Total Installation” incorporating the exhibition hall, which is designed to put its spell on visitors.

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The Hilton Vienna Danube has an impressive new shine: with the first stage of construction coming to an end, the hotel has reopened its doors on a regular basis. The renovation will be complete by November 2011, when the hotel will be extended by anew Meeting & Congress Center. 166 of the hotel`s 367 rooms are already available in the new look. At around 40 square metres in area on average, these are the largest hotel rooms in Vienna. The new lobby, Hilton Meetings rooms and gastronomic product have also been completed. Business travellers can look forward to the Executive Floors with their numerous conveniences and unique view over the Danube and the Viennese skyline.

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Caribbean Cruises

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Cruises to the Caribbean, South Seas and across the Mediterranean may still be booming, but nowadays more and more people are heading north – to the Land of the Midnight Sun.

Hurtigruten` means `speedy route` in Norwegian, and is the motto of the country`s traditional mail ships which have connected towns the length of Norway`s 2,700-kilometre west coast since 1893. Today, the combined cargo, passenger and cruise ships ply the coastline of Norway, from Bergen to Kirkenes, in six-and-a-halfdays, as well as passing through the vast Trollfjord and Geirangerfjord fiyords in the summer.

As well as ensuring Norwegians up and down the coast get their letters on time, however, the Hurtigmten route has been transformed in recent decades into something entirely new – a tourist attraction of international renown. A survey on the theme of customer satisfaction carried out last season showed that no less than 96 percent of those questioned were highly satisfied` with what they called the `most beautiful sea voyage in the world`. Almost 5,000 passengers took part in the survey – what greater evidence of people`s desire to travel the frozen North could you possibly want?

Arctic habitat

There is a huge amount to discover on the cruises, which offer repeated opportunities to watch the fascinating local fauna in their Arctic habitat, a harsh wilderness dominated by imposing glaciers and strikingly beautiful fjord landscapes. The coming year is a big one in polar history: polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen was bom isoyears ago, and it has been exactly a century since Roald Amundsen conquered the South Pole.

Hurtigruten is also celebrating the two polar heroes, as Captain Richard With founded the Hurtigruten line along the Norwegian coast in 1893, the same year Fridtjof Nansen set off for the Arctic Ocean on his newly-built research ship, Tram. Three years later, the Tram returned from the Arctic and Richard With established a shipping line from Norway to Spitzbergen with the intention of enabling travellers to experience the beauty of the Arctic world in icy reality.

Hurtigruten has been offering sea voyages to the polar regions ever since. This historic connection with polar pioneers Nansen and Amundsen is being celebrated in 2011. On Hurtigruten`s expeditionary voyages aboard the MS Fram along the coasts of Spitzbergen and Greenland, travellers can see the fascinating Arctic summer up close, and together with Seetour Austria, Hurtigruten is offering cruises at attractive special prices from June to August 2011.

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International Festival of Istanbul

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International Istanbul Theater Festival

Theater performances used to be a part in the programme of the International Istanbul Festival, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts j since 1973. By 1989 theatre

performances gained an independed identity and the new event was named The International Istanbul Theater Festival1.

Every year, The International Istanbul Theatre Festival includes in its programme the finest examples of classical and experimental theatre, dance and physical theater, music theater, theatrical concerts. From its start until today, the finest examples of national and international Groups, artists and productions participated in the Festival.

Since 1997 the International Theater Festival presents two “Honorary Awards” to one international and one Turkish theater personalities for their lifetime achievement in the field of performing arts.

The awards are presented each year during the opening ceremony of the festival.

In the last few years the International Istanbul Theater Festival started to print its name under significant Turkish and international productions as a coproducer. The intention of the Festival is to improve this attempt in future as far as conditions alow.

Istanbul Music Festival

International Istanbul Music Festival, 1972, is the oldest international of Istanbul. The festival brings the greatest names of the world and the country together during June- ) uly period every year. The festival, almost turning to be the official parade of the famed, gains another importance with the galas of many albums. The festival has hosted the most important artists and groups of the world for 32 years in Istanbul such as; New York Philarmony, Orpheus Chamber (Irchestra, Alban Berg Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Aldo Ciccolini, Itzhak Perlman, Julian Lloyd Webber, Mischa Maisky, Christopher Parkening, Montserrat Caballe. The festival is also an intermediary that brings Turkish Jurkish conductors and groups with the foreign artists on the same stage: Kronos Quartet and Burhan Ogal (2000).

The special project in 1999 was staging. Likewise, the 33rd International Istanbul Music Festival will be in June 2005 and the most prominent artists and ensembles of the classical music world will once again perform in Istanbul. Among them will be Marunsky Theatre Kirov Opera Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Valery Gergiev, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Anne Sophie von Otter, Academy of Ancient Music and Choir conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Concerto Koln & Sarband and Vadim Repin.

Jazz fans in Turkey, will most readily remember the 8th of July 1984. On that very day, hearing that Chick Corea and Steve Kujala were going to give a concert in Ataturk Cultural Centre as part of the Istanbul Festival, they had raided the box offices, and tickets were immediately sold out On the day of the concert there was an unprecedented crowd outside the ACC, and many people missed it as there were no tickets left. Chick Corea made his own surprise at the end of the concert when he brought Gayle Moran on stage. This unforgettable concert was the beginning of things to come. It was a reminder that jazz should occupy a bigger part in the Istanbul Festival, and that the musical spectrum of the Festival should be extended to cover many other musical styles.

As years went by the emphasis on jazz in the Istanbul Festival increased. The first real rock concerts in Istanbul were held in the Open-Air Theatre as part of the Istanbul Festival program The number of concerts under the heading of jazz, rock and pop grew in number every year. Then the line was crossed in rg88 and the legendary Miles Davis presented unforgettable musical feasts in the Open-Air Theatre three nights in a row. He was followed by Dizzy Gillespie, the Modem Jazz Quartet, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman and many others.

Istanbul Foundation for Culture

As the years went by,” jazz” also went beyond the limits of its literal meaning, and the Board of Directors of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts announced that the rst International Istanbul Jazz Festival was to be held as a separate event The festival was planned to be an activity embracing concerts of many styles of music in addition to jazz; like rock, pop, blues, reggae, new age, etc. It would surpass the boundaries of the concert sites, and question the boundary separating the people who produce music from those who consume it. In short, it would be more than a series of concerts. 1994, has a remarkable reputation among the national and international media

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts has been Cirganising art events for twenty four years in the fields of classical music, jazz, film, theatre and visual arts to start a dialogue between the Turkish art world and international art circles. Since 1987, IFCA has pioneered an international Biennial which aims at establishing an open-ended international visual art exchange between artists from different cultures. Through the four biennials that IFCA has organised, the opportunity for the development of an international cultural network has been secured not only for the Turkish art scene but also for the international artists, curators and art critics.

September-November period every two years. From the 1st International Istanbul Biennial held in 1987, Istanbul became host to internationally known artists such as Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Ilya Kabakov, Sarkis, Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke. There were special exhibitions from Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, USA, England and Yugoslavia Turkish artists, galleries and collectors also participated.

International Istanbul Biennial

10th International Istanbul Biennial will take place between 8 September and 4 November 2007. Chinese art critic and creator Hou Hanru will be creator of the biennial. The biennial`s concept this year “Is not impossible and is necessary – optimism at the time of global war” Focused on architectural realism and metropolitan facts to show cultural connections, different views and opinions about art with the complications of modem life. 10th International Istanbul Biennial just more than an ordinary exhibition during working hours its designed to be a creative workshop, there will be events during the night. So the public can be directly involved with the biennial project

Electronic Image of Dazibao Project referring its name from the radical street posters expressing democratic public views and opinions during the Chinese Cultural Revolution will start with the gathering open to everyone. The project will be consisting of amateur and professional video works of artists chosen by young group of creators from Turkey and will be louring different places every night. There will be series visual art events to give the biennial open and different dimensions.

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