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note: Chania, the second largest town-city in Crete, is 'ch' as in loch. video of where the last post left us, still in Ramadan, İstanbul Havalimanı: 0:00 /0:18 1× Taxi from Heraklion (Ηράκλειο) airport, called Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, to Chania. Yes, Nikos Kazantzakis, known in the anglophone

Every intention of visiting one of two intact remaining Byzantine churches in İstanbul, Aya İrini, Hagia Irene or Αγία Ειρήνη in the original Greek, the other being Θεοτόκος Παναγιώτισσα, Mary of the Mongols. Acknowledged by Kübra in Fener-Balat as a heroine of İstanbul, the church in her name is still

Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors ... a major exhibition devoted to Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004), celebrates a pioneering artist whose versatility and resolve enabled her to break new ground in both Türkiye and Europe. The exhibition brings together her expansive body of work – spanning the performing arts, visual arts, cinema,