‘Top of the Fields” Market: Sunday Gritty, rundown Tarlabaşı is a curiosity, a piece of prime real estate right in the heart of Beyoğlu,…
“Polish Village” Population: 350 Old name: Adampol Favourite daughter: Leyla Gençer (opera singer) Several districts of İstanbul are…
Born in İstanbul in 1850, the prolific architect Alexandre Vallaury was the son of a renowned pastry cook almost certainly of French…
“Cow’s Passage” Anyone fortunate enough to live in İstanbul knows that one of its greatest delights is the glorious Bosphorus (Boğaz in Turkish),…
Born in Italy in 1857, architect Raimondo d’Aronco arrived in İstanbul in 1893 to work on designs for a planned İstanbul exhibition of…
“Albanian Village” Other names: Mega Revma (Greek – Great Current) When cruising along the Bosphorus it can sometimes be hard to tell the…
“With a Pipe, or With a Twig” The main reason to visit the Asian Bosphorus suburb of Çubuklu is to see the splendid…
“Silver Water” Gümüşsuyu is the area immediately to the east of Taksim Square while Gümüşsuyu (İnönü) Caddesi is the road that links the square…
“Milk” Old names: Skyai, Pera These days Galata, the area around the landmark Galata Tower that was once the heart of Genoese Pera,…
Pavilion of the Mirrored Poplars. Closed Mondays, admission TL130, TL40 for Turks. Garden only TL20. (2024) The small late Ottoman palace at Aynalıkavak…