IN ISTANBUL, EMBARK ON A PATH THROUGH HISTORY WITH ÇIRAĞAN PALACE KEMPINSKI
“If the world was but a single country, Istanbul would be its capital.”
-Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Lygos. Byzantium. Constantinople. Istanbul is the city of one hundred names. Such is a title befitting a place so layered and complex that it escapes just one definition. After all, it has existed in one form or another, by one name or another, for nearly two thousand years. It can be classified not as Eastern or Western, Asian or European, not even ancient or modern. Istanbul is none of these things. And yet, perhaps paradoxically, it is all of them.
