“Eagle” Old names: Kartalimen, Kartalimin On the Asian shore of the Sea of Marmara, the İstanbul suburb of Kartal sits between Maltepe and…
Caddebostan is a middle-class residential suburb on the Asian side of İstanbul beween…
Closed Tuesdays. Open 9am to 6pm. Admission to Palace including Harem and Aya Eirene: TL650 (TL500 without Harem), Turks TL140 (TL110 without Harem).…
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…