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Fishing above, restaurants below, the view in front. What's not to like?! The Galata Bridge crosses the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, and is the symbolic link between the traditional old city of Istanbul (site of the Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, and the Hagia Sophia) and the "new" districts of Galata, Beyoglu, Sisli, and Harbiye (where many western, Latin, and Catholic foreign merchants and diplomats lived and worked over the centuries). The current Galata bridge was built by the Turkish construction company STFA to link the current "new" Karakoy and the "old" Eminonu, and was completed in 1994. The northern end of the bridge in Karakoy was a Genoese colony during Byzantine times. The southern end of the bridge in Eminonu is near to the Egyptian Spice Market and the New Mosque. It is a bascule bridge (or drawbridge), 490 m long and 42 m wide. It has three vehicular lanes and one walkway in each direction, along with tram tracks. The tram tracks allow the Istanbul Tram to run fro...

Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...