"The Tulip Period blooms anew in Istanbul
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The era may have died, but the Turkish fascination with tulips hasn't. You can still buy them from garden shops and street vendors all over the city. You’ll find them in famous gardens and parks, as has been the case for centuries. But now you will also see them along such roads as the Sahil Yolu, a riot of color transforming a once - ordinary highway into a multicolored carpet of spring blossoms "
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