This is the panoramic view from the top of our motel. IT IS SPECTACULAR! We must have the best view in the city. It is also very windy and you may have noticed that I didn’t get very close to the edge, scary! The first view looks across the Golden Horn to the northern, more recent city. The next picture is the Hagia Sophia, then the Blue Mosque which was built to be more impressive than the Byzantine, Hagia Sophia. After all, it has six minarets! The minarets were added to the Christian Hagia Sophia church when Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453. As you look at the mosques, you are also looking at the Bosporus strait, then as you look to the right you would see the Sea of Marmara. With the pictures, top to bottom is left to right.