
The Bosphorus is particularly famous for the 620 historic waterfront houses (yalı) built during the Ottoman period, which stretch along the strait’s European and Asian shorelines.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. ~Alphonse de Lamartine
The Bosphorus is particularly famous for the 620 historic waterfront houses (yalı) built during the Ottoman period, which stretch along the strait’s European and Asian shorelines.