The Rough Guide to Istanbul
Language: English
Pages: 344
ISBN: 0241184282
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Rough Guide to Istanbul is the perfect travel guide to one of the world's most popular and vibrant cities. Colorful, clearly laid-out pages are packed with exciting and evocative photographs, detailed color-coded maps and insightful descriptions of all the sights.
From the city's iconic Byzantine churches and Ottoman mosques to its roof-top bars, restaurants, live music and club scene, every side of Istanbul is covered. Take a ferry up the Golden Horn, cruise across the Bosphorus to Asia, walk the city's land-walls or lounge on the Princes' Islands beaches: The Rough Guide to Istanbul will be with you all the way.
You'll also find the latest insider information on the city's thriving arts scenes, as well as the best places to stay and shop. And if you are up for a little exploring beyond the city, The Rough Guide to Istanbul is the only major guidebook to include sections on the former Ottoman capitals of Bursa and Edirne, lakeside Iznik and legendary Troy.
Make the most of your time on Earth™ with The Rough Guide to Istanbul.
large shopping malls; a few old-style screens hang on in Beyoğlu, once the centre of domestic film production. Most cinemas still retain a fifteen-minute coffee-and-cigarette interval. Tickets cost from ₺8 to ₺20, depending on the cinema, though most offer midweek Halk Günü (People’s Day) discount nights. The annual International Film Festival (mid-April to May) and the excellent ten-day !f International Independent Film Festival in February take place mainly at cinemas in Beyoğlu. Keep your
military history, but endowed with some fine scenery and beaches, the slender Gelibolu (Gallipoli) peninsula – roughly 60km in length and ranging between 4km and 18km wide – forms the northwest side of the Dardanelles, the narrow strait connecting the Aegean with the Sea of Marmara. Whether you approach the peninsula from Şarköy or (more likely) Keşan, the road there is pretty, swooping down in long arcs past the Saros gulf. Site of the 1915 Gallipoli landings by the Allied troops, the
anti-Turkish West in the hope of winning the Nobel Prize. Such machinations by Pamuk are unlikely, although his open rejection of nationalism in a country still in nation-building mode makes him an object of suspicion. < Back to Beyoğlu, Taksim and around Taksim Square and around Taksim Square takes its name from the low stone reservoir on its southwestern side, today a modest municipality-run art gallery in front of which Roma flower sellers set up their stalls. It was constructed in 1732
you will have to swipe it for each person travelling. The Istanbulkart is an updated version of the akbil system (which worked in the same way but used a metal disc held in a plastic key) and you’ll see many locals using the old devices. It’s important to know this as many places selling and charging the Istanbulkart advertise themselves only with a sign reading “Akbil dolum merkezi” or “Akbil dolum bayii”. Buses Istanbul’s buses (otobüs in Turkish) come in a range of colours; the
decorated, enlivened with floral-pattern bedspreads and many have good views of either pine forest or the sea. €150 Özdemir Pansiyon Ayyıldız Cad 41 0216 351 1866; map. The cheapest option on the island, offering tiny chalet-type en-suite rooms with a shower over squat toilets, plus larger rooms in the main block with ceiling fans and decent bathrooms. Front rooms get some street noise and light. No breakfast. ₺100 BÜYÜKADA Ayanikola Butik Pansiyon Aya Nikola Mevki 104 0126 382 4143,