Anything on Istanbul/Constantinople is worth posting. Here's a brief look at the city that was selected to be the 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe. From The Guardian:
In all European travel there is no spectacle more tremendous than the sight of Istanbul massed beside the sea – a solidification of history, jumbled houses and docks and palaces along the shore, mighty domes and soaring minarets, ships and ferries swarming everywhere, rumbling traffic over terrific bridges – a timeless metropolis, familiar to travellers for a thousand years, and of such consequence that for centuries it was known to half the world simply as The City.
Of course, any story about The City is tinged with sadness because of its lost status as a vibrant epicenter of Christian culture.
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