The Bosphorus strait.

Greater Istanbul metro.

Europe and Asia.



The Golden Horn.





Taksim square.















Galata bridge.





Asia side.













Hagia Sophia, originally a church from 360 AD.



The Ottomans converted it to a mosque 1453 AD.

Enormous.





















Mary, Jesus, John.

Blue mosque complex.



Officially the Sultan Ahmed Mosque.

Built in the 1600's.







More red than blue.



Tutmoses III obelisk from 1450 BC in the hippodrome.







Galata tower, 67 m (220 ft), from 1348 AD.









Bosphorus.

Golden Horn.

Topkapi palace.

Hagia Sophia.





Mosques everywhere.







No sir, I am not drunk.



Istanbul university.

The Grand Bazaar.

21 in/out gates.

66 covered streets.

More than 4000 shops.





Asia side.

Bosphorus and Golden Horn.

Europe side.

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