Istanbul

A very strange feeling comes over you while watching the waters of the Bosphorus channel between two seas Istanbul crossing from north to south, from the Black Sea to the Sea of ​​Marmara. Here ends Europe, Asia begins here ... Straddling two continents, the city sometimes it was the Byzantine Greeks, the Constantinople of the Eastern Roman Empire and the capital of the Ottoman sultans remembers . This city was, for generations, the place itself and the symbol of civilization. Fabulous concentration of intelligence and wealth, Istanbul dazzled humanity during nine centuries ....
Theater of history, Istanbul is also a real street theater. Built on seven hills overlooking the sea, it is a tangle of narrow streets, riddled by large boulevards.
Istanbul is both a reduction in Turkey and a cultural exception. All provinces and all trades are based on a cosmopolitan bustle. Here, however, Europe is a dream; archaic alongside the modern. It is the East (all) against the West. The Bosphorus stare, sometimes jealous, always binoculars.
Just over the bridge for a new adventure begins. Two giant suspension bridges thrown over the Bosphorus connects Istanbul's Asian to European Istanbul. In turn, the latter is divided in two by a famous estuary, the Golden Horn: the south, the peninsula of Old Istanbul (Sultanahmet Sirkeci ...), which includes most of the known monuments. To the north, the districts of Galata, Beyoğlu Istanbul with late nineteenth extended by modern city begins the "real life" Istanbulites.

Due to the construction of two railway lines at high speed (one between Istanbul and Ankara, and the other between Istanbul and the Bulgarian border), plus no train arrives in Istanbul station. Traffic recovery is not announced before 2015 More in the news ratings.
                                                                                                                                From: Routard.com