The city of future ..
Istanbul, a special and rich city should be lived in and felt. A visual and cultural wealth and fete, full of charming and surprising things, that may any time urge up your desire for discovery and give u all tastes and feelings of life ... an unmatched city that you can never forsake with its grandiose Bosphorus where you feel the modern life and the mystical traditional aura and history together.
A way of transition for the history, beliefs and cultural life connecting the past to the future, and the different cultures and continents to each other ..a mosaic .
Ancient Istanbul,
irthplace of many Empires, a place that is dreamed of by the other Empires, too for centuries, a living legend witnessed the shift in the course of the world history, just like an outdoor museum where many cultures and traditions are joined.
'Where the east meets the west.'
Istanbul is one of the oldest cities in the world, situated on the shores of the Bosphorus straight. This straight divides, and connects the two continents of Europe and Asia, as well as joining the Black and the Marmara Sea. This historical city was once the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, and the Ottoman Empires. Istanbul still preserves the cultural, historical and artistic values of centuries past. Today Istanbul is the capital of tourism, business, and culture.
OLD CITY CENTER
Blue Mosque
Across from St. Sophia is the supremely elegant, imperial, six-minaret mosque of Sultan Ahmet I. built between 1609 and 1616 by the architect Mehmet, it is known as the Blue Mosque because of its magnificient interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles.
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