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Spanning the mouth of the Golden Horn between the old city and the districts of Karakoy and Beyoglu, the Galata Bridge is one of the busiest and most characterful crossings in Istanbul, a place where the life of the city plays out in miniature. There has been a bridge here since the mid-nineteenth century, each successive structure replacing the last; the present two-level bridge, opened in the 1990s, carries road traffic and a tramway above and a row of restaurants and cafes below, where diners...