Turkey in general

Istanbul

Food culture

Aya Sofya

The Blue Mosque

Turkish bath

The Grand BazarThe Grand Bazar

Basillica Cistern

Bosporos

Gebze

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The Rahmi M. Koc is a private indust-rial museum locatedin Istanbul. The museum shows the history of transportation and com-munications. Rahmi M. Koc is the founder of the mu-seum. He seum. He founded the museum in 1991 and it opened December the 13 1994. The museum have a big diver-sity in exhibits. You can see every kind of transport-ation bikes, cars, locomotives, ambulances, ships andeven planes end a submarine is part of the museum’scollection.

MuseumRahmi M. Koç

Istanbul is the biggest city and the capital in Turkey. The city has a population of 14.1 million people, and that makes Is-tanbul on the top 10 of largest cities in the world, and if you only look inside a city’s boundaries, it is the 4th biggest in the world. Istanbul is a very cultural city and is constituted as Turkey’s economic, cultural, and historical heart.

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Istanbul is a very special city, since it is divided into to parts, an European side and an Asian side. So a trip to Istanbul is prac-tically a travel to two different parts of the world, united till one. The Asian part is calm, charming andand impressive, and you can find a lot of streets with small shops, it is also the part where the local Turks live. The european side is divided into two pieces by The Golden Horn. North from the Golden Horn you find the modern,modern, financial part, where you also find tons of shopping centres and designer shops. South you find the old centrum of Istanbul with the historical mosque, museums, bazars and other sights.

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MOSQUETHE BLUE

Is called Hamam in Turkish.

Is focused on water, rather thansteam.Is used as a method of cleansingand relaxation.They are combined designs fromthe functionality and structural elements of its predecessors in Anatolia.

GENERAL INFORMATION

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1. You enter the relaxation room (Heat/warm room) (This is heated by a continuos flow of hot, dry air.

2. Then the Bathers move to the next room which is even hotter, called the“Hot Room”.

3. Then the Bathers move on, to the next room. Which is to wash of with cold water.

4. Then the Bathers get a full body wash and receives a massage.

5. Then the Bathers finally retire to the cooling-room for a period of relaxation.

TURKISH HAMAM FROM START TO FINISH

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Location

The Grand Bazaar is located inside the

walled city of Istanbul, in the district of Fatih

and in the neighbourhood called Mahalle. It

stretches roughly from west to east

between the mosques of Beyazit and

Nuruosmaniye.

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History

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is

one of the largest covered markets in the

world with 60 streets and 5,000 shops,

and attracts between 250,000 and

400,000 visitors daily. It is well known for

its jewellery, hand-painted ceramics,

carpets, embroideries, spices and antique

shops. Many of the stalls in the bazaar are

grouped by type of goods, with special

areas for leather, gold jewellery and the

like. The bazaar has been an important

trading centre since 1461.

The Grand Bazaar today

Today the Grand Bazaar is a thriving

complex, employing 26,000 people

visited by between 250,000 and

400,000 visitors daily, and one of the

major landmarks of Istanbul. It must

compete with modern shopping malls

common in Istanbul, but its beauty

and fascination represent a formidable

advantage for it.

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Gebze is an industrial city, situated 50kms east of Istanbul on the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara, it is the largest district of Kocaeli. Gebze has experienced rapid growth in recent years. It is near Istanbul's second air-port at Sabiha Gokcen, and has port facilities within easy reach.

Via Port is the largest outlet concept shopping mall of Turkey. And it is lo-cated in Gebze. It has 189 stores and a car park with 4500 vehicle capacity in total.It is an open-air concept shopping mall, we have streets, squares, green areas, even a large pond in which ducks swim. Peacocks, pigeons, and rab-bits are our other friends living near our pond. They live happily in the greenery surrounded by reeds accompanied by the love of our visitors. Via Port have a large entertainment center in the foreground of our shopping center which both adults and kids take a great interest in. The heat is always on laughter and joy always take the lead. 24 entertainment units in ttotal are colorful, energetic, alive and kicking. Via port also have a Covered Turkish Bazaar a miniature of the Grand Bazaar.

Grundfos pump came to Gebze in 1998. In 2005, 16,000 m2 established and today the investment of 10 million euro for its own factory after the nationwide reach of all in order Gebze / Istanbul center and Ankara, Anta-lya, Izmir, Bursa and Adana region ofice serves.

GEBZE