Ok, so as on so many sunny days or evenings before we visited the Square today. But as I/we had temporarily run out of ideas to do I checked the city's website to see what's going on and found out just in time that some military band, or Ottoman orchestra if you will, from Turkey was scheduled to give a concert at the square. The web site didn't say the players would be marching through the streets, singing and rhythmically raising and lowering their flag, mace, and sticks bearing bells (paraphrasing Wiki here). Luckily, we figured that out ourselves after having waited at the square wondering why were the people lining streets and why there was no stage with instruments on it. The touristy crowd followed the orchestra around all four sides of the square and then we settled in front of and behind the men playing their war songs to us. Mike thought some of their songs seemed suitable for snake charming and I would have associated some others with elephant riding. Music itself was good.
