Cultural activities - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

View of the Choregic monument of Lysicrates, Athens

Folk song from Mani.

Folk sailor's song.

Wedding ceremony, most probably of Ottomans of higher rank.

View of Kandili on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground, Ottoman women dancing. On the left the Anatolian Castle.

View of Kandili on the Asiatic shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground some Ottoman men are dancing, while others are enjoying their coffee.

View of Büyükdere, on the European shores of the Bosporus. In the foreground, Ottoman men dancing on a boat.

Scene in the Valley of Sweet Waters.

Ottoman men are resting in the cooling room of a hamam, after having enjoyed their bath.

The Küçüksu fountain (or Mihrişah Valide Sultan Fountain) in the Sweet waters of Asia. In the background the Rumelian and Anatolian Castles.

Musicians at the Asian valley of Sweet Waters.

Composition: Choregic monument of Lysicrates in Athens together with the port of Faliro, close to Piraeus.

Women from Persia, one in city dress, the other in dance costume.

Modern Greek air.

Title page. Scenes from the author's trip to the Mediterranean.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. In the background Hadrian's Arch. On the right, the Acropolis.

Illustration for the poem of Lord Byron "The Walts": Scene in a salon in London.

Score of syrtos dance.

Score of traditional Greek musical piece.

Turkish dance.

Greek dance.

A Turkish dancer, dancing before her master.

Woman dancer of Cairo (Almeh).

A popular fair at Agia Anna, Euboea.

Dance of Bulgarian peasants.

Ottoman dancers.

Greek women dancing in Istanbul.

“Pano-kato” dance.

View of the city and port of Zakynthos.

Typical musical instruments of the Ottoman Empire.