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"Naples has its Capri and its Ischia; Constantinople its Princes' Isles. Few places have witnessed the groans of more princes and princesses hurled from the splendours of the Imperial Palace." Thus wrote Gustave Schlumberger, a 19th-century French archaeologist of the idyllic archipelago off the coast of the erstwhile Ottoman capital, Istanbul.
Writer: Ivan Carvalho Photography: Felix Bruggemann
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