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At dusk, when the calls to prayer from hundreds of minarets rise simultaneously above the Golden Horn and the city turns amber, Istanbul is one of the most beautiful places on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are warm and layered: terracotta red, Ottoman blue-green tilework, the gold of Byzantine mosaic, and the deep silver-blue of the Bosphorus at the blue hour. 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