Romanticism !!!

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellow'd to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,

Had half impair'd the nameless grace

Which waves in every raven tress,

Or softly lightens o'er her face;

Where thoughts serenely sweet express

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win.

the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent...

Lord Byron

The Specola Tower - observatory.

Took some photos for you!!!

The specola tower, which in more recent times was used as an observatory.

The Astronomical Observatory of Padova , Italy.

**From Medieval Castle to astronomical observatory!**

A thousand years of history at the specola.

A lookout tower in the 10th-century; a castle and also a horrid prison

used by the tyrant Ezzelino da Romano from 1242 to 1256;

defensive castle of the Carraresi princes of Padova

from 1375 to 1405; ammunition depot of the Republic of Venice

until 1767, when the observatory was built.

The name "Specola" derives from the Latin specula word,

meaning observatory.

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Objectives:

1. To study the history of the meteorological observations performed in Padova in the context of the scientific knowledge of the past three centuries.

2. To copy from the original registers, determine all the errors, correct, validate, seek for the lost data and analyse the long meteorological series of Padova (1725-today) which is still unexploited.
3. To analyse the accuracy of the instrumental measurements and evaluate the typical systematic errors.
4. To evidence the apparent climate changes due to changes in measuring methodologies originated by the adoption of new conventions / standards / international recommendations.

La specola,

costruita da Ezzelino III da Romano,

nel 1242, come torre di difesa, fu adibita a osservatorio astronomico nel 1767.

Oggi, insieme al castello, è sede della facoltà di Astronomia dell'Università di Padova,

ed stata adibita a museo.

In essa sono conservati gli antichi strumenti utilizzati,

nel 1700 e nel 1800, per le osservazioni astronomiche.

TOURISM & TRAVEL EXHIBITIONS

TOURISM IN ANTALYA
“Tourism&Travel Exhibition-Meditt Antalya”
Beautiful Views from Marina, Kekova,
Side-Aspendos, Adrasan, Demre and Center
Antalya is a famous important tourism center in Turkey. Antalya receives about

4 million foreign tourists each year and tourism is the major source of money income

for the investors and the local people. The beautiful beaches and the clean seawater

are major attractions for tourists. An integrated coastal zone management is needed

to conserve all the natural beauties and achieve sustainable tourism and development.

A good place for vacation and has lots of Historical Areas.

Museums shed light on Anatolian history

Thousands of works with traces of various cultures are on display at museums all around Turkey. Antalya, Alanya and Side museums in the Mediterranean, the ones in the eastern Anatolian cities of Erzurum and Kars, and Amasra and Ereğli museums in the Black Sea region receive great interest from visitorsANKARA - Anatolia News Agency
Anatolia is home to important historical works including the Castle of Erzurum, the Ruins of Ani in Kars and the Genocide Monument in Iğdır.
The region's four museums are the Archaeology Museum, the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Yakutiye Madrasah), Atatürk House, and the Castle of Erzurum as a site of ruins.
On display at the Archaeology Museum are works belonging to the Karaz culture dating back 5-6,000 years. Works belonging to the Trans-Caucasus culture are also on display.
Nearly 20,000 works are being exhibited at the Archaeology Museum. Some 8,000 of them are coins, approximately 3-4,000 are ethnography works, and the rest are archaeological works. The Yakutiye Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum exhibits 750-800 works. The museum building, a monumental construction dating back to the İlhanlı period in 1310, displays ethnography works such as dresses, jewelry, manuscripts and amulets belonging to the periods ranging from the Seljuks to the Ottomans.
“Our other museum is the Atatürk House where the national struggle started. This place has vital importance because the foundation of the Turkish Republic was laid here. Objects like pictures, photos and maps in the building are also on display,” says the Erzurum Museum director, Mustafa Erkmen, adding that all the museums are open to visitors.
Pointing to the importance of the Erzurum Castle, Erkmen says there is a clock tower, a madrasah, a tomb and mosque from the Saltuklu period in the castle.
The Ruins of Ani are located on a high hill in the Ocaklı village of Kars, where there are 10 churches, a bridge, and the remains of many buildings. The ruins attract the attention of

tourists visiting the region.

TOURISM & DENIZLI

PAMUKKALE
Afrodisias Gate- Odeon- Theatre - Museum & Statues

On Pamukkale we can see "white" and call it COTTON CASTLE, the

Enc. Britt. has: a resort around which limestone deposits from the hot springs

have formed beautiful cascades and basins. Maybe the landscape has changed

somewhat. In particular it seems that the hotels higher up the cliffs, from

which lukewarm water came cascading down, started using this water for

swimming pools and the like, thus disturbing a fragile system. Also the number

of tourists walking the cliffs increased considerably, so the white of the cliffs is

off-white to say the least. I stayed at the bottom of the cliffs, if you walked up

a road you first past the cliffs, then the hotels, and next you arrived at ...

HIERAPOLIS, APHRODISIAS

Sculptures on the beach in Antalya

W O W

Have you ever seen sculptures which made of sand

on the beach?
There were some beautiful samples which were made

by sculptors on Lara Beach in Antalya-Turkiye.

Last year we visited there!

They really seem to achieve perfect works.

They also knew that all would be ruined by simple

rain drops...

Skills,

Artisans and

Challengers !

THE FIRST CALENDAR

Future historians will be in a unique position when they come
to record the history of our own times. They will hardlyknow which
facts to select from the great mass of evidencethat steadily accumulates.
What is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written word.
Films, gramophone records, and magnetic tapes will provide them
with a bewildering amount of information. They will be able, as it were,
to see and hear us in action. But the historian attempting to reconstruct
the diztant past is always faced with a difficult task. He has to deduce
what he can from the few scanty clues available. Even seemingly
insignificant remains, can shed interesting light on the history of early man.
Up to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being
with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to
understand something about the seasons. Recent scientific evidence seems
to indicate that this assumption is incorrect.
Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which
have been engraved on walls, bones and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
The nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during
the last Ice Age which began about 35.000 B.C.and ended about 10.000 B.C.
By correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have
been able to read this difficult code. They have found that it is connected with
the passage of days and the phases of the moon.
It is, in fact, a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that the hunting scenes depicted on walls, were not simply a form of artistic expression.
They had a definite meaning, for they were as near as early man could get to
writing. It is possible that there is a definite relation between these paintings and the markings that sometimes accompany them. It seems that man was making a real
effort to understand the seasons 20.000 years earlier than has been supposed.

BENEATH A PHRYGIAN SKY

*The moonlight*

It was dancing On the waves,

out on the sea The stars of heaven hovered

In a shimmering galaxy
A voice from down the ages So haunting in its song

These ancient stones will tell us

Our love must make us strong
The breeze it wrapped around me

As I stood there on the shore And listened to this voice

Like I never heard before
Our battles they may find us No choice may ours to be

But hold the banner proudly The truth will set us free
My mind was called across the years Of rages and of strife

Of all the human misery And all the waste of life
We wondered where our God was In the face of so much pain

I looked up to the stars above To find you once again
We travelled the wide oceans Heard many call your name

With sword and gun and hatred It all seemed much the same
Some used your name for glory Some used it for their gain

Yet when liberty lay wanting No lives were lost in vain
Is it not our place to wonder As the sky does weep with tears

And all the living creatures Look on with mortal fear
It is ours to hold the banner Is ours to hold it long

It is ours to carry forward Our love must make us strong
And as the warm wind carried Its song into the night

I closed my eyes and tarried Until the morning light
As the last star it shimmered

And the new sun's day gave birth

It was in this magic moment

Came this prayer for mother earth

Reprise:
The moonlight it was dancing On the waves, out on the sea

The stars of heaven hovered In a shimmering galaxy
A voice from down the ages So haunting in its song

The ancient stones will tell us

Our love must make us strong!