Istanbul & Cappadocia

Anduin by the Medusa column in the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul
Couchsurfing hostess Gonul and her family
Agriculture of Anatolia
Fresco inside a thousand-year-old cave churchI know nothing about the history of art, but I googled it and the introduction of perspective into art is a feature of the Italian Renaissance, 15th century. The figures in this cave from 500 years earlier were painted to show dimension.

Underground city (8 floors to 150 ft below the surface) where Christians could hide from Islamic raiders for up to six months, used for 500 years. A (shorter) person would be punished, not crucified, by being hung and spat upon on one of the columns on the sixth floor.

Crazy Cappadocian landscape
Love those developing world detergents