In the rather cold months from fall to spring, it can be set up well in Istanbul. They sat in a cafe. Visit museums and exhibitions go or to 14 Jazz Festival Akbank of 6 to 16 October. The venues are here scattered around the city and offer 10 days of jazz and world music a high standard and of course entertainment.

You are not a jazz fan ? Well - the program offers the Ataturk Cultural Center in Taksim in ballet , musicals , opera and music performance. Here, every genre is represented.

The current cinema culture in Turkey has much to offer . Films by young directors and directors in a mixture of popular entertainment and award-winning author of films are usually near the Turkish-language version is also often presented in the English language. Although the film productions have in number been greatly reduced since the 70’s , the local film industry in Turkey is especially for the last few years successfully compete against large-scale productions from America.

a different area covers which opened in December 2004, right on the pier of Karaköy located , 8000 -square-foot art and contemporary museum “Istanbul Modern ” from . The first floor of the collection of Turkish painting, the staircase is an older Biennale work of Monica Bonvicini . The ground floor also works of international contemporary art.

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