Itineraries, practical tips, and neighborhood guides to plan your trip to Istanbul.
Istanbul is not an easy city for people with reduced mobility: cobbled streets, steep slopes, narrow or cro...
Visiting Istanbul on a public holiday changes the experience: national museums, bazaars and transport do no...
Between Sultanahmet and the Theodosian Walls, along the Sea of Marmara, three districts of the old city rem...
Istanbul has been a backdrop for spy films for more than sixty years, and most of the places seen on screen...
Istanbul is easier for vegetarians than its reputation for grilled meat suggests. Turkish cooking has a gre...
Istanbul has two kinds of markets: the historic bazaars, open almost every day and visited by tourists, and...
Istanbul is home to three of Turkey's biggest clubs, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş, and their matche...
Istanbul has more than a hundred museums, from imperial palaces to contemporary art galleries, and admissio...
Istanbul has few museums that are truly free for foreign visitors: the big state museums charge a ticket pr...
Monday is the day many Istanbul museums close: Dolmabahçe, Istanbul Modern, Pera, Sakıp Sabancı and the Mus...
Istanbul is a Muslim-majority city: 25 December is not a public holiday and most shops stay open. Even so, ...
Mimar Sinan, chief architect of the Ottoman Empire for half a century, gave Istanbul its skyline of domes a...
Istanbul has half a dozen Ottoman palaces and pavilions open to visitors, spread over both shores of the Bo...
Istanbul has a large theme park, an aquarium, a toy museum and several museums made for playing, but their ...
Istanbul has a reputation as a city of stone and concrete, but it hides real green spaces: sultans' gardens...
The Museum Pass Istanbul is a single ticket from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism that gives access to s...
Istanbul is a city of pastries. Baklava has its own vocabulary and historic houses here, Turkish delight ha...
The Turkish breakfast, the kahvaltı (literally "before coffee"), is a meal in its own right: cheeses, olive...
Istanbul is a city of the sea, but not really a beach city: the shores of the Bosphorus are quays and garde...
In Istanbul, the ferry is not an excursion reserved for tourists: it is public transport, which residents t...
Istanbul has more than three thousand mosques, and some twenty are worth the trip in their own right. This ...
Istanbul is built on seven hills on both sides of the Bosphorus: almost every district has its panorama. Th...
Beşiktaş is the district of the European shore that runs along the Bosphorus between Kabataş and Ortaköy, a...
Beyoğlu is the liveliest district on Istanbul's European side: the old Pera of embassies and Levantine merc...
