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Istanbul City & Tourist Guide : Online Hotel Reservation & Comprehensive information about Istanbul

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William Butler Yeats regarded Byzantium (the city's original name) as a "beauty outside time." And while the city, with its grand monuments and rich traditions, does in some ways seem to suffer from a strange lack of linear progress, as if time were repeating itself in grand, patient codas, Istanbul is no longer Byzantium or Constantinople.

Despite where the travel guides lead visitors, it is not just a living museum, but a vibrant, cosmopolitan and modern city that happens to have an impressive historical pedigree.

This city has always harboured the extremes of wealth and poverty, religion and paganism, hedonism and asceticism. It is known globally for its hamam bathhouses and sensual kicks -- Russian prostitutes enjoy a thriving trade in the legal whoring district of Pera -- but also for its great houses of spirituality, which are everywhere in the oldest parts of town.

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