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Extract from the Edirne Travel Guides:
EDIRNE
, a former Ottoman capital, boasts an impressive number of elegant monuments and makes for an easily digestible introduction to Turkey, on the borders with both Greece and Bulgaria. It's a lively city, albeit somewhat seedy thanks to vast numbers of truck drivers and assorted East European traders who pass through.
The main sights of Edirne are best seen on foot; allow a full day as there are myriad lesser monuments and old houses well worthy of a detour. The best starting point is the
Eski Camii
bang in the centre, the oldest mosque in town and a boxy structure begun in 1403 that is a more elabor... read the whole Edirne Travel Guides...
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