Yenikapı

Yenikapı is a port and a quarter in Istanbul, Turkey, in the metropolitan district of Fatih on the European side of the Bosphorus and along the southern shore of the city's historically central peninsula.Yenikapı is notable for the ongoing excavations on its Byzantine port discovered in 2004. This has become one of the largest investigations in Europe, because of the size and the number of the shipwrecks found since the initial discovery, and the large number of associated artefacts. The commercial harbor, called the Harbour of Theodosius, in use between the 5th and the 10th centuries, was an alternative to Constantinople's traditional berths situated along the inlet of the Golden Horn.TransportationThe Yenikapı Transfer Center is also the site of an underground mass rapid transit terminal, construction of which was delayed by the massive excavations necessary for the project. The new Yenikapi terminal provides interchanges between the Hafif Metro (M1) line that connects to the airport, the Istanbul Metro's M2 line, and the new Marmaray railway link connecting the Asian and European sides of the city through a new tunnel under the Bosporus.