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Few hotel openings have been as eagerly awaited as the reopening of the Pera Palace hotel, set for spring 2010. It first opened in 1892 as a hostel for travelers on the Orient Express. The two-year, €20 million ($29 million) restoration will leave many belle époque furnishings intact, including a wood-cabin elevator. Suite 101 is a museum honoring Kemal Ataturk, father of the Turkish Republic who
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Blackk Club
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A different and exotic bar in Istanbul. Everything in this elegant Istanbul nightclub is black: floors, curtains, tables, seating. Even the bar staff wear black. The atmosphere’s more high-end fashion house than funeral home. Opened in 2005, in a superb location on the Bosphorus, the venue does indeed attract a high fashion crowd with a high VIP count. Hugely popular, it goes without saying that
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Khedive Palace
http://en.wikipedia.org — The Khedive Palace (Turkish : Hıdiv Kasrı) located on the Asian side of Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, was a former residence of Khedive Abbas II of Egypt.
Abbas Hilmi Pasha (reigned 1892-1914), the last Khedive (Ottoman governor) of Egypt and Sudan, commissioned Italian architect Antonio Lasciac assisted by Delfo Seminati, to built a summer residence at Bosphorus. Today after conversion, it ser
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Galata Bridge
The Galata Bridge (in Turkish Galata Köprüsü) is a bridge that spans the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey. From the end of the 19th century in particular, the bridge has featured in Turkish literature, theater, poetry and novels.
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Ortaköy
http://en.wikipedia.org — Ortaköy (literally Middle Village in Turkish) is a neighbourhood, formerly a small village, within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, located in the middle of the European bank of the Bosphorus.
Ortaköy is a cosmopolitan area, with communities of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Jews. The neighbourhood hosts many different religious (Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox, and other Christian) structures. It is
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Bosphorus Bridge
The Bosphorus Bridge, also called the First Bosphorus Bridge is one of the two bridges in Istanbul.
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