Turkey through a traveler’s eyes: Frances Elliot, an ‘idle woman in Constantinople’
Hippodrome, Sultanahmet
March 07, 2015, Saturday/ 17:00:00/ TERRY RICHARDSON / LONDON
“The real beauty of Constantinople is in its water.
Water everywhere, clear, blue, and shimmering; away to the far south the placid sea of Marmora … To the north the long, low stretch of the Bosphorus teaming with steamers…and at hand the watery bosom of the Golden Horn cuts into the densest portion of the city, and disputes possession with the land.”
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