With its strategic location, role in history, urban memory, tourist attractions, architectural works and hundreds of centuries of cultural accumulation, Istanbul is positioned as one of the cities in the world where life continues 24 hours a day.
Being in a unique position in the world with its feature that unites the Asian and European continents, Istanbul fascinates its visitors with its natural beauties, skyscrapers rising to the sky, minarets, gilded domes and historical buildings.
It impresses with its nostalgic tram that pierces the roar of the crowd, the necklace bridges of the Bosphorus that shine like rubies in the dark of the night, the ferry whistles mingling with the sounds of seagulls, the majestic centuries-old mosques, and the fishermen who are always fishing in Galata.
The city, which is used as a natural plateau in many movie sets from Yeşilçam to Hollywood, hosts the legendary love story of Galata Tower and Maiden's Tower.
The ancient city, which has the title of the only city in the world with a sea passing through and having land on two continents, continues to be the city of trade and culture for centuries due to the strategic location of sea, land and air routes.
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According to the Tourism Statistics Report, Istanbul hosted 16 million 18 thousand 726 tourists, 35.95 percent of the foreign visitors coming to Turkey in 2022.
Istanbul, one of the cities with the richest religious and ethnic diversity in the world, attracts great attention to its cosmopolitan districts such as Balat, Fener, Karaköy and Kuzguncuk, where people of all colors have lived together for centuries.
Every day, thousands of people follow the traces of many cultures in the city, where mosques such as the Blue Mosque, Suleymaniye Mosque, Hagia Sophia Mosque and Great Mecidiye Mosque, which form the silhouette of the city, live.
From Istiklal Street, one of the first spots visited by foreign tourists, where the heart of the city beats every hour of the day, to Bağdat Street, the prestigious shopping point of the city, which was the route of caravans in the Ottoman period, life continues in the late hours of the night in the streets that have become the center of attraction of Istanbul.