Frommer's Istanbul (Frommer's Complete #576)

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Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer's Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.

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Frommer's Istanbul takes you beyond the tourist circuit to discover the city's hidden pleasures and historical secrets. Experience Istanbul like a local, thanks to our author's tips on buying authentic rugs and Turkish crafts, visiting a hamam, haggling in the markets, dining on street food, and avoiding time-honored scams.

Frommer's Istanbul includes suggested itineraries for seeing the city on a tight time-budget; walking tours through the city's grandest plazas and ancient back streets; side trips to get you out of the city and exploring a different perspective on Turkish life; an in-depth history and culture appendix that discusses the history, arts, language, and religions of Istanbul; and a beginner's Turkish glossary, to help you greet your Turkish counterparts in their own language.

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Title of ebook: Frommer's Istanbul (Frommer's Complete #576)
ISBN: 9780470395899
parent-ISBN: 9780470257081
Publisher: Frommers
Internet download file size: 7944 kb
Published: 02-2009
Released online for download: 02-05-2009
Author of eBook: Levine, Lynn A.

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Frommer's Istanbul

Chapter One

Best of Istanbul

First-time visitors to Istanbul often leave home with foggy yet preconceived notions about this storied and mysterious destination. And while visitors will have their own opinions and ideas on what to look forward to, in Istanbul, they all have a ring of truth. Istanbul, like Turkey, is simultaneously many and often bewilderingly contradictory things: ancient and modern, western and Oriental, religious and secular, conservative and progressive, wondrous and ordinary, familiar and exotic. But there is one undeniable common denominator among all of these disparate and contradictory traits: Istanbul is growing more and more interesting by the day. Juxtaposed against the unstoppable machine of progress are layers upon layers of ancient civilization, where housing renovations or urban renewal projects invariably uncover groundbreaking evidence of Istanbul's stature throughout the centuries. If you need proof that Istanbul is as momentous as Rome, as captivating as Paris, and-if you know where to go-as exotic as Bangkok, then you've picked up the ... read full excerpt from Frommer's Istanbul (Frommer's Complete #576) ebook

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