The journey of Alberto Angela with his Ulysses, the pleasure of discovery. After London and the places that marked Van Gogh’s art, tonight (at 9.30 pm on Rai 1) it’s up to one of the most fascinating cities in the world: Istanbul. The penultimate episode of the popular program is dedicated to the city that lived three times Ilary Blasi and the new reality of Canale 5 The Couple. Will he also be able to tonight?
Istanbul It was a Greek colony with the name of Byzantium, then with the name of Constantinople was the capital of the Roman Empire of the East for more than a thousand years and for another five hundred of the Ottoman Empire and finally megalopolis of modern Turkey with the name of Istanbul.
The journey is in the history and artistic beauties of a city that has had multiple lives, seen emperors and sultans, basilisse and concubine, Eunuchi and Visir. The episode begins with Alberto Angela Which descends into the cistern-based, an authentic forest of columns that seem to emerge from the water, in search of the traces of the ancient capital of Constantine and Justinian.
Then the conductor discovers the ancient Hippodrome, who at the time of the Byzantines was the scene of heated clashes and in which he moved the first steps from dancer the imperator Theodora; Santa Sofiamasterpiece of architecture, which for more than eight centuries has been the largest church in the world (subsequently converted into the mosque with the Ottoman conquest) and the only portrait that came up to us of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XIfound in December 2024.
The story continues in the Ottoman Istanbul, among the luxuriant courtyards of Topkapi Palacepalace that still holds some of the most beautiful jewels in history in the treasure halls, the secrets of the courtyards of the Harem and the Mosque of Solimano the Magnificentthe sultan who first dared to marry his concubine, the beloved Roxelana.
In the end Alberto Angela It is conquered by the gigantic chandeliers of the Dolmabahce Palace, a decadent symbol of the period of the Ottoman reforms, by the liberty atmospheres of the Pera Palace Hotel, the hotel of those who arrived in Constantinople on board the Orient Express and the breathtaking views designed by domes and minarets that arise between the waters of the Bosphorus and the gold horn. Have a good trip!
Source: Vanity Fair
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