It will conquer you. Raw, vast, crowded, fresh, wild, mixed, luminous - that's Istanbul. It has always been there, but it is never the same. The light of Asia seems to come to Europe through this place. It's a light of a different quality, defined by a vast space. That light was there when it was Constantinople and it will be there when we are all gone.
The light remains, it just meets a different patchwork. Cities with history always keep the old and the new, the special and the ordinary in a kind of patchwork, of which Istanbul is a perfect example.
Andrey Gordasevich
It will conquer you. Raw, vast, crowded, fresh, wild, mixed, luminous - that's Istanbul. It has always been there, but it is never the same. The light of Asia seems to come to Europe through this place. It's a light of a different quality, defined by a vast space. That light was there when it was Constantinople and it will be there when we are all gone.
The light remains, it just meets a different patchwork. Cities with history always keep the old and the new, the special and the ordinary in a kind of patchwork, of which Istanbul is a perfect example.