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What to see in Istanbul on foot

50 sights worth the detour, all walkable, all offline.

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Istanbul is a city made for walking. This self-guided guide maps 50 of its sights worth the detour — landmarks, historic sites, museums and galleries and parks and gardens — the places locals point to and the tour buses skip, close enough to string into a single day on foot. Download the Istanbul pack in Voyage GO before you go and the whole route works offline: no roaming, no dead battery from a live map. Every monument, viewpoint and park you pass quietly fills your travel passport.

Landmarks3

  1. 1Çemberlitaş HamamıThe Çemberlitaş Hamam is a historical Turkish bath that was built beside Divan Yolu, a processional road dating back to the Byzantine Era that once led to Rome, in the Çemberlitaş neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey.
  2. 2Cevri Kalfa Çeşmesi
  3. 3Mehmet Efendi Çeşmesi

Historic Sites32

  1. 4Yılanlı Sütun
  2. 5Hatice Turhan Sultan Türbesi
  3. 6Milyon TaşıThe Milion was a marker from which all distances across the Roman Empire were measured.
  4. 7Kanuni Sultan Suleyman 1 TurbesiSuleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent, was the Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566.
  5. 8Hurrem Haseki (Roksolana) TurbesiHürrem Sultan, also known as Roxelana, was the chief consort and legal wife of Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, mother of his successor Selim II, and the first haseki sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
  6. 9Gotlar SütunuThe Column of the Goths is a Roman victory column dating to the third or fourth century A.D.
  7. 10Karababa Türbesi
  8. 11Sarayburnu Atatürk Anıtı
  9. 12Yerebatan SarnıcıThe Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey.
  10. 13IV. Mehmet Türbesi
  11. 14Sultan Abdulaziz Han kabriAbdulaziz was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup.
  12. 15V. Murat Türbesi
  13. 16II. Abdülhamid Türbesi
  14. 17Sultanahmet Meydanı
  15. 18Bâbüssaâde
  16. 19III. Ahmed Kütüphanesi
  17. 20Bağdad Köşkü
  18. 21III. Ahmet Çeşmesi
  19. 22Legacy Ottoman HotelThe Istanbul 4th Vakıf Han is a historical large office building located in the Sirkeci neighbourhood of the Eminönü quarter within the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.
  20. 23Dîvân-ı Hümâyûn
  21. 24Arz Odası
  22. 25Sultan Ahmet TürbesiI.
  23. 26Sultan Ahmet Medresesi
  24. 27Sultan III. Mehmet Türbesi
  25. 28Sultan III. Murad Türbesi
  26. 29AyasofyaHagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
  27. 30Alman ÇeşmesiThe German Fountain is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of the former Hippodrome of Constantinople in Istanbul and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I.
  28. 31İstanbul Üniversitesi Kapı Köşkü
  29. 32Seraskerlik Kapısı
  30. 33Fatih Rehberlik ve Araştırma Merkezi
  31. 34Gazi Atik Ali Paşa CamiiThe Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque is a 15th-century Ottoman mosque located in the Çemberlitaş neighbourhood of the Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey.
  32. 35Tahtakale HamamıThe Tahtakale Hamam is a historic Ottoman hammam building in Istanbul, Turkey, close to the Rüstem Pasha Mosque in the Tahtakale neighbourhood, between the Grand Bazaar and Eminönü.

Museums & Galleries13

  1. 36Binbirdirek SarnıcıThe Cistern of Philoxenos, or Binbirdirek Cistern, is a man-made subterranean reservoir in Istanbul, situated between the Forum of Constantine and the Hippodrome of Constantinople in the Sultanahmet district.
  2. 37İstanbul Demiryolu MüzesiThe Istanbul Railway Museum is a railway museum in the historic Istanbul Sirkeci Terminal in the Sirkeci neighborhood of Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey.
  3. 38Beyazıt Türk Hamam Kültürü MüzesiThe Bayezid II Hamam is a historic bathhouse (hamam) on Divanyolu Street in Istanbul, Turkey.
  4. 39Türk ve İslam Eserleri MüzesiThe Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum is a museum in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey which first opened in 1914 and in 1983 moved into the palace of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, the second grand vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent.
  5. 40İslam bilim ve teknoloji tarihi müzesiIstanbul Museum of the History of Science and Technology in Islam is located in the former Imperial Stables Building in Gülhane Park.
  6. 41Türkiye Gazeteciler Cemiyeti Basın MüzesiThe TGC Press Media Museum, aka Istanbul Press Media Museum, is a history and technology museum dedicated to mass communication in Turkey featuring exhibitions about journalism.
  7. 42Türk Eczacılık Tarihi İhtisas Müzesi
  8. 43İstanbul Üniversitesi Rıdvan Çelikel Arkeoloji Müzesi
  9. 44Topkapi SarayıThe Topkapı Palace or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey.
  10. 45Çinili Köşk
  11. 46Eski Şark Eserleri MüzesiThe Museum of the Ancient Orient is a museum in Istanbul, and part of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums complex, located opposite the main Archaeology Museum building.
  12. 47Türk Vakıf Hat Sanatları MüzesiThe Museum of Turkish Calligraphy Art is a museum located in Beyazıt Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.
  13. 48Sepetçiler Kasrı

Parks & Gardens2

  1. 49Alfred Heilbronn Botanik Bahçesi
  2. 50Gülhane ParkıGülhane Park is a historical urban park in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey; it covers an area of 9.7 ha, is adjacent to and on the grounds of the Topkapı Palace.

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