Istanbul (CNN) — With sloping banks studded with elegant personal mansions, palace parks and centuries-old groves, the Bosphorus is the embodiment of Istanbul.
This 19-mile (30-kilometer) strait runs from the Black Sea within the north to the Sea of Marmara within the south.
The city sprawl covers Europe within the west and Asia to the east, geographical info giving rise to the romantically evocative however considerably fanciful description of Istanbul as a metropolis that straddles two continents.
Technically it does, however the Bosphorus is not town’s solely waterway. Just earlier than it meets the Sea of Marmara, the Golden Horn — identified regionally as Haliç — branches off northwest. It finally peters out inland in contrast to the Sea of Marmara, which results in the Aegean Sea by way of the slim Dardanelles Strait.
Day and evening, tankers and container ships are seen alongside the horizon close to the Princess Islands, patiently ready their flip to go alongside the transport route.
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