Articles and photo series featuring cities and cityscapes
Was hat die zentraleuropäische Renaissance mit Südspanien und dem Orient zu tun? Geht man dieser Frage auf den Grund, kommt man an Andalusien und im Speziellen an Cordoba nicht vorbei…
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Gracefully does the world’s most northern metropolis frame its geographic aorta, Neva River…
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Already since Bronze Age earth-dwellers settled at the large oasis that is today known as Syrian capital. Already pharaohs like Thutmosis and Amenophis knew Damascus, one of the most continuously inhabited settlements on this planet. Not only the ancient Egyptians had the knowledge where Dimasq is as also two of the most important books worldwide, Bible and Quran, tell stories mentioning Aram-Damascus.…
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What city better than ancient Byzantium and former Constantinople could have been a better starting point of an Arabia journey than the metropolis between Occident and Orient? Already approaching Atatürk airport was amazing when flying over Old Town, Golden Horn, Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque at sunset.…
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Originating from Sultan Ahmet Mosque, Muezzin’s call to prayer spreads out over the city of Istanbul like a stream of fresh air. Majestically soaring towards the sky and sharpened like pencils the six minarets are framing the massive domes of Sultan Ahmet Mosque, which is also called Blue Mosque…
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Directly in the neighbourhood of the Sultan Ahmet Mosque you can find the Hagia Sophia. The former mother church of Byzantine empire is a part of Istanbul for a slightly longer time than Blue Mosque is; if even not to say for more than 1000 years…
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The entrance of Yerebatan cistern, also called Basilica Cistern, is located at the corner Divan Yolu and Yerebatan Caddeli…
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