Itineraries, practical tips, and neighborhood guides to plan your trip to Istanbul.
November is Istanbul's quiet, rainy month: afternoons stay mild, around 16 °C, but grey days become more fr...
October is one of the best months for walking in Istanbul: about 21 °C in the afternoon, soft light and a s...
September keeps the summer without the stickiness: an average high around 26 °C, a sea still at 22 °C, litt...
Ramadan 2027 begins in Istanbul on Monday 8 February and ends on Monday 8 March, with the festival marking ...
To enter Turkey and visit Istanbul you need a passport and, depending on your nationality, a visa or not. C...
The Süleymaniye Mosque crowns Istanbul's third hill, and almost everything around it can be reached on foot...
Hagia Sophia sits at the heart of an area where almost everything can be reached on foot: within ten minute...
Dolmabahçe Palace is the great seaside palace of the last sultans, and it is surrounded by other places tha...
Topkapı Palace sits at the tip of the old city, and almost everything around it can be reached on foot: the...
To get internet in Istanbul you have three options: your own operator's roaming, a travel eSIM bought befor...
Istanbul spreads over two continents around three bodies of water: the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn and the S...
Renting a car in Istanbul is easy but rarely a good idea for visiting the city: heavy traffic, narrow and s...
Istanbul attracts more and more remote workers: the city is full of cafés where you can open a laptop, the ...
Dondurma, Turkish ice cream, is part of the image of Istanbul: a vendor in an embroidered vest, a long meta...
No, cannabis is not legal in Istanbul, or anywhere else in Turkey: buying, possessing and using any drug ar...
Istanbul is one of the fashion and design capitals of the region: the Turkish textile industry supplies maj...
Turkish national holidays are unlike the religious bayrams: they fall on fixed dates, are marked with flags...
Yes, you can smoke in Istanbul, but not everywhere: since 2008, Turkish law no. 4207 has banned cigarettes ...
The Grand Bazaar and the Egyptian Bazaar (the Spice Bazaar) are Istanbul's two historic covered markets, a ...
Neither Halloween nor Thanksgiving is a Turkish holiday. Still, Istanbul has a large foreign community, int...
Istanbul is the city in Turkey where LGBT life is most visible, especially in Beyoğlu and Kadıköy, but the ...
The Istanbulkart is the contactless card that opens Istanbul's whole public network: tram, metro, funicular...
Around the Galata Tower the view pushes prices up: the terraces around the square are expensive for what th...
Around Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque you eat very badly or very well depending on the street where you s...
