Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge   The Wonder of The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge Istanbul is known for many things, but one of those has to be its huge and iconic bridges.   Of course, we know that the Bosphorus is the huge span of water which passes through the city, effectively separating the continents of Europe and Asia, but in order to pass between the two, there needs to be a bridge! Well, Istanbul doesn’t do anything by halves, so that means one bridge is not enough, it has to have two!   Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge is widely known as the ‘second bridge’. The main Bosphorus bridge, located in the Ortakoy region of the city is more formally known as the ‘Bogazici Bridge, or the Bosphorus I. This bridge was completed in 1973 and covers a huge 1074 metres across the water, from one side of Europe, to the other side of Asia. Due to the fact that traffic in Istanbul is never light, that one bridge struggled to cope with the sheer number of vehicles which needed to pass over the water, so another bridge was built a few years later, in 1988