Beyond gardens where the nightingales are singing, the tall minaret of Eregli stands revealed in the vapory glow.

Higher and higher the shadows climbed till the tall minaret stood out alone, a sentinel and a flaming sword.

By day, bathed in the hot rays of the sun, its tall minaret-like outline looks like a block of ice against the blue sky.

From the marble terrace which surrounds it rise four tall minarets of the same material, one at each corner.

Its central dome, tall minarets and wings widespread toward the river crown the height and seem to foster the beauties they partly enclose.

Then through the channels among the shallows, north, towards the two tall minarets in the distance, the one of Burano, the other of Torcello.

The exterior has also four smaller domes (one on each side) and two very tall minarets, with shorter ones on each corner.

It is a handsome building, its walls arranged in Byzantine stripes of pink and gold stone, with triangular Nabatean arches and two tall minarets.