The Matryoshka of Antalya
Layers of History
Just like the Russian toy Matryoshka, the district of Antalya known as Kaleiçi is a unique blend of various...
Hotels Embrace Change
Aysel Akkaynak, the Sales Director of Grand Hotel Gülsoy, highlights the shift in the hotel industry over the past four years. Previously,...
This new Rome on the Bosporus had the great advantage of having been built from scratch. Old Rome had to undergo considerable urban renewal...
Constantinople’s other great advantage was the deimperialization, so to speak, of emperors. The word we use in English, “emperor,” derives through French from the...
Constantine, the first Christian emperor, saw the possibilities in the place. He was brilliant in both his plan for the city and its execution....
