Men fishing on Galata Bridge across the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey. Photo:Jeff Gilbert
The present bridge dates to 1994 and it is the fourth such to cross the Golden Horn here. The fishermen, the fish restaurants, the frenetic traffic, the views – this is Istanbul’s quintessential reference point. Originally connecting the ‘foreign’ neighborhoods of Galata/Pera to the old city. The present, quite ugly, bridge was built in 1992 to replace an iron structure dating from 1909 to 1912, which in turn had replaced two earlier structures. The iron bridge was famous for the ramshackle fish restaurants, teahouses and nargileh joints that occupied the dark recesses beneath its roadway, but it had a major flaw: it floated on pontoons that blocked the natural flow of water and kept the Golden Horn from flushing itself free of pollution. In the late 1980s the municipality started to draw up plans to replace it with a new bridge that would allow the water to flow. A fire expedited these plans in the early 1990s and the new bridge was built a short time afterwards.
Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Galata Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey
Photo credit: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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