“Little Bridge” Old name: Rhegium (Roman), Rhagion Festival: Ashura (changing date) With time on your hands you might want to take the Marmaray west…
“Copper Village” Old names: Hebdomon, Makrohori, Makriköy Market: Saturday It used to be the case that as you sped into İstanbul from Atatürk…
“Seven Towers” Yedikule is the İstanbul equivalent of London’s Tower of London, full of stories of gory deaths and executions in a dramatically…
Named after the Ottoman sultan Beyazıd II (1447-1512) whose tomb forms part of the mosque complex he founded here, Beyazıt is the extraordinarily…
“Road to the Divan” Virtually every visitor to İstanbul will at some point stroll along Divan Yolu, the road that runs from Ayasofya…