“History has left its mark on this city so deeply and strongly. It is present everywhere with its own rhythm, its own special taste, it appears before us at every step. Sometimes there is a mausoleum, a mosque, an inn, a tombstone, an old plane tree here, and a fountain in the distance, and it catches you with the view and name that makes you dream of the past, with the light from the past times that swayed on it and instilled a longing for all its lines.”

 

*Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Five Cities.