6. Turkey
Turkey is emerging as one of the most popular tourist destinations of the world clocking in 32 million tourist arrivals in 2017 and 11.8 million in the first five months of 2018 alone. Istanbul (once Constantinople) is one of the historically most significant cities of Europe during the Renaissance era. Some of great tourist attractions are the Aya sofya, the former Greek Orthodox Christian cathedral, later a mosque in the Ottoman era and now a museum in Istanbul and considered to
be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, the swooping rock valleys of Cappadocia and the fascinating Bosphorus strait that separates Turkey between Europe and Asia. For awesome nightlife and partying tourists flock to Izmir, a city on the Aegean coast in the European half of the country.
