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A mix of old and new, as roads now travel through
the arches of the 4th-century Valens Aqueduct. |
More than two thousand twelvemonths pursuing the going of the Greeks, few examples of Istanbul's Greek architecture have outlasted. Perhaps the most large token of the Greek epoch is Maiden over's (Leander's) Tower. Residing on an islet in the Bosphorus just off the glide of skdar, Maiden over's Tower was first built up by the Greeks in 411 BC to guide ships within the pass. Since then, however, the tower has undergone a number of expansions and restorations, furnishing its connection to the Greeks tenuous, and today merely serves as an watching breaker point.
