A home for Sultan Abdulaziz during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the Ciragan Palace was largely destroyed by a fire in 1910. Situated on the shores of the Bosporus, the palace has been restored to its orginal splendor and is now part of a luxury hotel.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "City at the Crossroads," March/April 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
