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The Blue Mosque

İstanbul

The mosque with six minarets: an empire showing itself, and still a working place of prayer. Fourteen stops, about twenty-five minutes.

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The Blue Mosque
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The Weeping Column

Hagia Sophia · northwest corner

That column is darker than the others. Because it doesn't belong here — it was brought from Ephesus. For fifteen hundred years everyone touched the same spot, which is why the brass shines.

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