On the way back to the hotel, I took a couple of hasty photos out the cab window. There quite an array of ancient architectural styles overlapping on every city street, with Byzantine, Gothic, and Ottoman buildings living side by side together, in various states of dilapidation and decay. All of it looks gorgeous, though, framing the modern inhabitants of this city against epochs of history long since disappeared. But echoes of those times are but still set in stone, and the city's skyline is punctuated with domes, minarets, modern construction, and all kinds of remnants too enduring to tear down. It's quite a vista...
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