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Sultanahmet District
The spectacular Istanbul is a huge city with many fascinating neighborhoods, full of character and personality. Of these Sultanahmet is the oldest and one of the most appealing. Here you can find the Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, the Small Mosques Sofia, Yeni and New the Mosque, the Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar, among many other fabulous places. But Sultanahmet is not only the scene of ancient buildings but also of cobbled streets with converted Ottoman houses, charming small hotels, pubs, tea rooms, where Istanbulíes eternally smoke water pipes, old buildings with spectacular terraces, which coexist with carpet stores, grocery stores and hostels.
Especially in the afternoon, when all the major tours and tour buses have left, shows his soul Sultanahmet neighborhood. In some streets the good restaurants invade the pavement and night full of flavor and atmosphere, but others appear deserted, silent, full of echoes of enormous seagulls squawking. If low for some of these streets into the sea at sunset probably see the dark silhouette of a big boat coming or going slowly Bosphorus Strait.
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