Two highlights in one week!
From Istanbul and the Black Sea, we moved towards the Aegean Sea, direction Izmir. On the way we stopped in Bursa, a bustling city of over three million people, making it the fourth largest in the country. The majority of Turkey`s automotive production happens here. It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire for a brief period in the 14th Century. Different modes of transportation We parked up next to a museum, not knowing what it was about. It did look very interesting from the outside, though, with its huge dome. Always curious, my human went inside to check it out. It is called "Panorama 1326" and tells you about life in the empire during that time. The show piece of the museum, which opened in 2019, is a gigantic panoramic picture, as they call it. Eight artists worked for three years, digitally painting a colossal mural which was then printed on fabric and now lines the whole dome. It is a truly fascinating piece of art, supplemented with columns made of foam and underlin...