“Fashion” Right next door to Kadiköy is the swish Moda neighbourhood with some very desirable places to live. It’s not so much a…
Old name: Tatavla Tucked away at the back of Şişli, Kurtuluş is not the sort of place most visitors to İstanbul ever discover. Certainly…
The main reason for a visitor to come to Harbiye, the continuation of Elmadağ along Cumhuriyet Caddesi north of Taksim Square, is to…
“Polite Stone” Despite its pleasant name, Kabataş, midway between Fındıklı and Dolmabahçe, is little more than a major transport interchange where the trams…
“Seven Towers” Yedikule is the İstanbul equivalent of London’s Tower of London, full of stories of gory deaths and executions in a dramatically…
Really, there is nothing quite like it. Think back to the excitement of those Christmas mornings of childhood, magnify that feeling by a…
“Big Mustafa Paşa” (?) Just inland from the Sea of Marmara coast road once it passes Yenikapı is Kocamustafapaşa, the official modern name…
“Albanian Village” Other names: Mega Revma (Greek – Great Current) When cruising along the Bosphorus it can sometimes be hard to tell the…
Old name: Kosinitsa Until recently not much known to outsiders, the Kuzguncuk suburb of Asian İstanbul is very popular as a place to…
Old name: Karay Köy The waterside suburb of Karaköy almost feels like four separate places. There’s Karaköy Meydanı, the frantically busy square through…