All things Ottoman have rarely seemed more fashionable in Turkey. Whether it’s Ottoman motifs in fabrics, Ottoman houses finding new life as boutique…
Cappadocian thermal resort …
“Big Mustafa Paşa” (?) Just inland from the Sea of Marmara coast road once it passes Yenikapı is Kocamustafapaşa, the official modern name…
Taksim Meydanı (Taksim Square) is to İstanbul what Trafalgar Square is to London or Times Square to New York. It’s here that Turks…
“Middle Village” Market day: Sunday One of İstanbul’s liveliest and trendiest Bosphorus suburbs, Ortaköy boasts a rather odd name which means “Middle Village”…
“Marker Stone” I’ll be honest and admit that Nişantaşı is not my favourite part of İstanbul. It’s not that it doesn’t have some…
“Ancillary Village” Market: Saturday (organic produce), Sunday (antiques) Designed by the Swiss Bomonti brothers in 1890 with a distinctive peaked tower, the Bomonti…
Stadium for chariot races Other name: Atmeydanı (Turkish) Festival: Post-iftar stalls and celebrations during Ramazan Once the venue for hotly contested Byzantine chariot…
“Life-Saver” Market: Wednesday (beside Sphendone) Many hotels in İstanbul which are labelled as being in Sultanahmet are technically in the neighbourhood called Cankurtaran which…
Running west from Sultanahmet Meydanı across the tramlines is Yerebatan Caddesi with, just downhill, the entrance to the Yerebatan Sarnıçı (Underground or Basilica…