Golden Horn Bay is one of the best and most natural harbors in the world. In the old days there were stationed merchant ships Byzantines and Ottomans, as well as warships. Today, landscaped parks and pedestrian walkways stretch along the coast.

Harbor Golden Horn - a curved bay of the Bosphorus, which juts deeply into the land. The length of the bay is 12, 2 km, a width of 91-122 m, depth - 47 m. The two streams flow into the bay in the western part of Ali Bey-su, referred to the ancient Kidarosom Kiat and Khan-su - the ancient Barbizes . On both banks located in the European part of one of the largest cities in Turkey - Istanbul. Four bridges spread across the bay - a Galata Bridge, Old Galata Bridge, which is no longer in operation, Atatürk Bridge and the Bridge of the Golden Horn.

Golden Horn Bay is protected from all the excitement and winds except the storm. Between the cape and Tiger are in 1, 2 miles away Cape Goldobin, he goes deep into the northern coast of the Eastern Bosphorus Strait. Limited Shkot Bay peninsula, located in the northwest. This beach Golden Horn is very hilly, and its southern part precipitous and throughout priglublena. Northern, southern and eastern shore of the bay are sublime, but in some places also have cliffs and framed by low and very narrow coastal strip, which has been artificially leveled and sometimes extended to the port facilities. Bay Shore peaks low. To him goes the valley through which the river flows explanations.

Somewhere about seven thousand years ago the waters of the Bosphorus and rivers Kağıthane and Alibey still flowing into the Golden Horn (the northern part), merged and formed a natural harbor .  For centuries, the Golden Horn and Altin Boynuz called one of the best natural harbors in the world .  In the waters of the bay, which really is shaped like a horn, it was full of fish and very fertile land on the banks of the harbor gave a very rich harvest .  Often called the Bay cornucopia, and it is believed that this bay was named by the Byzantium in honor of his mother, kotorub Keroessa name because in Greek Golden Horn sounds like Krisokeras .  There is, however, is another interesting legend, which states that under the luminous rays of the sun sparkling waters of the Gulf real gold .  The present Turkish name of the Golden Horn - a Golden Horn (halic, which in Turkish means "bay") .  The full name of this comes from the harbor, the Golden Horn and the Ottoman Dersaadet, which means "the bay gates of bliss" .

The weather in summer in the Golden Horn Bay is very changeable. Here prevail southern and south-easterly winds, rains a lot and there are fogs. In autumn and winter the wind blows mostly from the north and northwest. They bring dry and clear weather with a great decrease in air temperature, while there is an increase in atmospheric pressure. Fog in the Golden Horn harbor seen from April to August. They are, more often, it can be seen in June - July. Fogs usually come here when blowing south-easterly winds. When there is no wind, you can see them less often. Winds blowing in the fall and winter, there are very long and can sometimes reach speeds of 6-8 m / s or more, and in the spring and summer, the wind speed is slightly smaller.

At Fener and Balat districts that are conveniently located in the heart of the Golden Horn Bay, stretch numerous streets of old houses and churches, synagogues, built in the era of the Ottoman and Byzantine empires. Beach Golden Horn strengthened substantially in its entirety, walls. They are equipped with piers and docks. The depth at the entrance to the Golden Horn is from 20 to 27 m, and further, to the top of the bay, it gradually decreases. The soil in the bay - is ill.

When the Turks came here the shore of the Golden Horn became a popular place for recreation .  It began to build rich mansions and summer residences .  But, despite this, in these lands since the beginning there is a large number of workshops and factories .  Nobody controlled industrial development gradually led to a devastating environmental pollution, and the water of the Golden Horn into a veritable cesspool .  These merged city sewage and industrial waste all those who were not lazy .  The situation has changed for the better only in the 1980s .  Municipality of Istanbul, it was decided to return to this ancient district of the city to its former beauty .  Currently, the newly stretched along the banks of the Golden Horn cozy green parks and its coastal districts, still preserved in their streets, wooden houses built in the Byzantine and Ottoman periods, synagogues and churches, and the sunset again covered in gold water of this beautiful bay .