Hagia Sofya
and the Yerebatan Cistern
While many of the historical konaks - houses- have been renovated and turned into boutique hotels, an early morning walk through the back streets showed that many of the houses are falling into rack and ruin.
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| This boutique hotel is next door to the building in the next photograph. |
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how very UNFORTUNATE. lovely town, too.
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It's sad to see once grand buildings in decay.
ReplyDeleteI really agree...it is sad to see such marvelous building let go to decay.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo ops of a very sad situation. I hate to see lovely cities falling into decay.
ReplyDeleteIt looks as though the city is dying...sad.
ReplyDeleteJane x
The city is actually growing. It is so large now it takes 4 hours to get from one side of it to the other. The population is approximately 15 million, with more people arriving every day. There is talk of splitting it into two separate cities for administrative purposes. It is just some buildings in the old city that have fallen into decay.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are amazing!! I'm really loving traveling vicariously though your blog to all the places I would love to go see. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't like the look of the decaying building, but I think we find it everywhere now a days. I glad the city is growing and the first pictures were lovely.
ReplyDeleteGreat shots and you captured the contrast between the beautifully maintained and restored as well as the decaying and abandoned.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting! I havent been in Turkey and couldn't imagine that the houses looked like this. Wooden houses!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
What a pity such unique buildings are falling into decay.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots! Wow! I really need to leave my neighborhood more often (though this is a tad too far away).
ReplyDeleteThese houses are not even fit to be used as stables. You are right to show these contrasts of luxurious villas next to examples of grinding poverty. It's a shame. The images are very good!
ReplyDeleteWOW that was some tour! Fascinating and beautiful. The crooked house was actually cool - sad, but cool.
ReplyDelete@Meryl. The crooked house is my favourite. It is like something from a fairytale.
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful building that became wasted. Beautiful captures though.
ReplyDeletebrilliant take on the theme!
ReplyDeleteThe modernization and negligence of heritage. Wonderful take.
ReplyDeleteYour post came on purpose ! I am going next wednesday to Istambul for 10 days for a city trip. I had been there 3 years ago but only for a day and thought it was not enough.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting for me to see the other side from the glorious tourist centers !
@Gattina have a great trip. Istanbul is a wonderful city. I love the time I spend there.
ReplyDeleteI love your contrast of shots - they are good - it is such a shame that part of the city is so delapidated - perhaps in time it will be restored -
ReplyDeleteSo sad when buildings are allowed to decay - and no one will rehab them unless they will be able to make lots of money off the enterprise. The initial shots were breathtaking, by the way. Thanks, Amy
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting. You heard of the helicopter song? I just found out about it and it is Irish.
ReplyDeleteAnn, hadn't heard the helicopter song until now. But I googled it after your comment:-)
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