"Does it ever snow in Istanbul?" "How cold does it get?" ask often the visitors to the city. With such a temperate climate, one is surprised to hear Istanbul has its share of snow every year like many other cities on the latitude of 40, but only for a few days:)...
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I have a weak spot for anything art-nouveau. Could it be because a neighborhood with art nouveau houses was a default setting for me since I was born? We do not have V. Horta or A. Mucha here, but we do have Raimondo D'aronco of Italian origin,...
Friends living in Yeşilköy take me out for a lovely walk in the neighborhood. A mellow sunday well-spent spotting wooden art-nouveau houses, visiting a number of churches, discovering the tomb of maltese painter Amedeo Preziosi, famous for his watercolor...
The Dogan Building, one of the most expensive and coveted residences in the city. The residents include some celebrities so I would not be surprised to hear if they start a TV series very soon. As a close-knit society, we love prying into other people's...
As water has always been scarce in the region where Islam has flourished, the Ottomans celebrated the abundance of water by erecting elegant, colossal fountains in the places, where settlement was to be encouraged. With the modern water supply systems,...
Küçüksu Pavilion is surrounded by these elegant wrought-iron fences. The Küçüksu Pavilion? I will leave it to your imagination:)
A detail from the Istanbul Design Week held annually on the old Galata bridge. Precisely, a hundred years ago it was referred as the new Galata bridge by Owen William in his photo, Ode to the new bridge. The old bridge connecting two sides of Halic, the Golden...
The dome of Hagia Sophia. During the extensive restoration carried out by Fossatti Brothers in the mid 1800s, the calligrapher Kazasker Izzet Efendi decorated the dome with the verse from Qur'an "In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful,...
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