Istanbul

Turkey's cultural and business centre stands with one foot in Europe, the other in Asia. Glittering palaces and monumental mosques, crooked wooden houses and twisting narrow lanes, sweeping boulevards lined with gleaming glass and steel -- the sights, sounds and smells of this bewildering, captivating city weave a pattern as intricate as a Turkish carpet. This Way Instanbul also explores the wooded shores of the Bosphorus and around the Sea of Marmara, and the resorts and sites of the Aegean coast.