"Four Seasons Hotel, The Bosphorus, Istanbul
East meets west in dazzling splendour
It's perhaps surprising that this year's European Capital of Culture should sit astride two continents. But stand on the terrace of this 19th-century Ottoman palace, once known as Atik Pasha, and you can gaze from Istanbul's European heart across the Bosphorus strait to the city's Asian shores, barely a kilometre away."
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