Things to Do in Istanbul: The Dome of Hagia Sophia, the Courtyards of Topkapi Palace and the Ferries of the Bosphorus
Stand on the Galata Bridge at dawn and the city explains itself: minarets and domes on the European hill ahead, the tower of Galata behind, ferries stitching the Bosphorus between two continents. The best things to do in Istanbul move between those two shores and two empires, the Byzantium of Justinian and the Ottoman capital…