#leander's tower

[illustratus]

Constantinople - a view across the Bosphorus towards Leander's Tower by night

by Carlo Bossoli

[nobeerreviews]

On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you - you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.

-- Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

(Bosporus at night)

[historyontheorientexpress]

"View of the Leander's Tower in Constantinople" by Ivan Aivazovsky (1848)

[illustratus]

View of Leandrovsk tower in Constantinople by Ivan Aivazovsky

[historyontheorientexpress]

View from Leander's Tower by Gabriel Carrelli. 

[bautyofworld]

Maiden's Tower, Istanbul: The Maiden's Tower, also known as Leander's Tower since the Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait, 200 m from the coast of Üsküdar in Istanbul, Turkey. The tower appeared on the reverse of the Turkish 10 lira banknote from 1966 to 1981. Wikipedia

[womblegrinch]

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) - Leander’s Tower on the Bosporus

Oil on canvas. Painted in 1876. 19.1 x 39.1 inches, 48.4 x 99.4 cm.

Part of the collection of the Fogg Museum, Harvard.

[historyontheorientexpress]

The Maiden's Tower, also known as Leander's Tower  since the medieval Byzantine period.