“Axe Harbour” The upmarket Bosphorus suburb of Baltalımanı is named after Kaptan–ı Derya Baltaoğlu Süleyman Bey, a 15th-century admiral who took his nickname…
“New Village” Old Names: Neohorion, Nihori While not as obviously recognisable from a Bosphorus ferry as Arnavutköy Yeniköy is nonetheless one of the…
“Haydar Pasha” Haydarpaşa is the area directly north of Kadıköy on the Asian side of İstanbul which used to be home to the…
“Top of the Hill İstiklal Caddesi looking uncomfortably crowded? Then duck down a side street into Meşrutiyet Caddesi (Constititional Monarchy Street) that runs…
Within easy walking distance of Sultanahmet, the Cağaloğlu district is known for a particularly lovely Turkish bath frequented in the past by the…
Born in İstanbul in 1850, the prolific architect Alexandre Vallaury was the son of a renowned pastry cook almost certainly of French…
“Independence Road” If there’s one place outside of Sultanahmet that everyone should visit it has to be İstiklal Caddesi, the insanely busy pedestrianised…
Old name: Karay Köy The waterside suburb of Karaköy almost feels like four separate places. There’s Karaköy Meydanı, the frantically busy square through…
“Roman (European) Castle” The well-heeled Bosphorus suburb of Rumeli Hisarı is named after the huge castle built here by Mehmet the Conqueror in…