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•Only comprehensive Istanbul architectural guide book in English, in a handy user-friendly size
•Comprehensive and well researched: it includes architecture from the Byzantine era to modern high-rise
•Includes
accessible tours that can be made on foot; the city has been divided
into 7 districts with background history, maps, and building locations
marked
Istanbul is one of the most
exciting and culturally diverse cities of the world and this is
reflected in the wealth of its architectural design.
Istanbul
Architecture covers more than two millennia and its buildings range
from the lofty and many tiered aqueducts built by the Romans through to
Ottoman mosques, with their attendant bath houses, schools and
hospitals.
In Beyoglu, across from the
Golden Horn, banks, arcades, embassies and apartment complexes reflect
foreign influences. Within this district, contrasting architectural
styles such as Belle Epoque, Venetian, Gothic and Art Deco all exist
quite happily together. Elsewhere along the Bosphorus can be seen
Baroque palaces of the Sultans and charming yali, the unique Turkish
waterside mansions.
The background to
this diverse range of architectural styles is the ultra-modern
skyscrapers, bridges and other innovations of a technologically complex
metropolis.
