"Istanbul: From the Orient Express to European 2010 Capital of Culture
By Adrian Mourby
Last updated at 5:05 PM on 14th February 2010
The most expensive gin-and-tonics in Istanbul are served in a poorly-lit hotel bar unchanged since Greta Garbo, Agatha Christie and Ernest Hemingway haunted the Pera Palas.
The quirky Palas opened in 1892 as the first hotel built in Istanbul for Europeans. Its horse-drawn carriages would meet the Orient Express as it steamed in below the sultan's palace at Topkapi."
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