Lost Love Found
“The Ottoman Turks, in comparison with their predecessors, the Byzantines, had done little to contribute to that beauty, but the Byzantines had built for the ages. There were no street names. Residents of the city referred to streets by some identifying characteristic, such as the Street of the Gemcutters. Like Rome, Istanbul was built on seven hills, so the streets meandered up and down and all around the city. The majority of houses were of wood, though the wealthy and upper-middle-class merch...ants had taken to tearing down their old wood houses and building new ones of brick or stone. The Sea of Marmara, the great harbor of the Golden Horn, and the straits of the Bosporus could be seen from many vantage points.
Water. It was all about them, not simply by nature’s design but because it was an important part of the religion of Islam. There were fountains everywhere, filled by underground waterpipes that stemmed from cisterns and water tanks that took the life-giving liquid from ancient aqueducts outside the city.MoreLess
Water. It was all about them, not simply by nature’s design but because it was an important part of the religion of Islam. There were fountains everywhere, filled by underground waterpipes that stemmed from cisterns and water tanks that took the life-giving liquid from ancient aqueducts outside the city.MoreLess
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