With its odd name that seems to mean “Cutting the Bosphorus”, Boğazkesen is the steep and busy road that runs down from beside…
Sarayburnu must be one of the world’s most familiar skylines – a promontory jutting out where the Golden Horn flows into the Bosphorus…
“North-easterly Wind Village” Poyrazköy is a small beach resort on the Asian shore of İstanbul beyond Anadolu Kavağı and the Third Bosphorus Bridge.…
At the far northern end of the Bosphorus on the Asian side just before Anadolu Kavağı there is a hill with a shrine…
The Rami barracks were originally built outside the Land Walls between 1757 and 1774 as the Askar-ı Mansure-i Muhammediye Kışlası. They were expanded…
Kemeraltı Caddesi is the busy main road that runs parallel to the Bosphorus from Karaköy to Tophane where it mutates into Meclis-i Mebusan…
Aydos (Keçi) Castle in Sultanbeyli sits astride the highest point in İstanbul. It was probably built by the Byzantines in the 12th or…
Only slight remains of the once important Byzantine Damatrys Palace survive in Sancaktepe in the Asian part of the city. Believed to date…
Described by Newcastle University researchers as “the most monumental linear fortification dating from antiquity in continental Europe, comparable only with Hadrian’s Wall in…
In 2014 the radically designed Sancaklar Cami designed by Emre Arolat opened in Beylikdüzü on the western outskirts of the city. Set into…