A short walk up the Golden Horn – From Unkapanı Bridge to St. Stephen of the Bulgars
The famous, continent-dividing Bosporus may be longer, wider and busier with shipping, the Sea of Marmara infinitely more blue and expansive, yet the Golden Horn, the third stretch of water defining the triangular…
İstanbul Through the eyes of an Ottoman traveler
Four hundred years ago a man was born in İstanbul who was to spend 51 years of his life in almost constant motion, recording his experiences in his 10-volume “Seyahatname” (Book of Travels)…
İstanbul's oriental business district -the hans of 19th century Eminönü
As İstanbul’s year as the European Capital of culture comes to an end two small exhibitions have been highlighting the mark left on the city by 19th-century architects of Armenian and Greek extraction….
Discovering Byzantine traces in Istanbul
By Marion James, Today’s Zaman – What is this life if, full of careWe have no time to stand and stare. These are the opening lines of a poem by William Henry Davies…
