In between Yeniköy and Tarabya the tiny Bosphorus suburb of Kalender is sometimes said to have been named after a lost lodge of the Kalender dervishes although it was more probably named after the Kalender Palace, built here in the 17th century, then replaced several times; today the only trace of it is a garden wall.
The one specific reason either to hop out of the bus here or perhaps to stroll back from Tarabya would be to admire the late 19th-century Huber Köşkü (Huber Mansion), an enormous wooden mansion originally designed by the Art Nouveau architect, Raimondo d’Aronco, for Auguste Huber, representative to the Ottoman court of the German company Krupp and Mause that supplied it with its rifles. In 1985 it was nationalised and restored to serve as a summer retreat for the president.
Detail of Huber Köşkü
Transport info
Most buses heading up the Bosphorus to Sarıyer from Kabataş and Beşiktaş will pass through Kalender.
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