With its odd name that seems to mean “Cutting the Bosphorus”, Boğazkesen is the steep and busy road that runs down from beside…
“Tunnel” Technically it may be the name given to the 573-metre-long funicular that runs uphill to İstiklal Caddesi from Karaköy but Tünel is also the…
Taksim Meydanı (Taksim Square) is to İstanbul what Trafalgar Square is to London or Times Square to New York. It’s here that Turks…
“Independence Road” If there’s one place outside of Sultanahmet that everyone should visit it has to be İstiklal Caddesi, the insanely busy pedestrianised…