Anadolu Hisar (The Anatolian Fortress) is located in the district of the same name, in Beykoz, at the narrowest point of the Bosphorous. ...

In the Islands Museum you can see works covering the history of the Princes Islands from their formation and first settlement, to its architectural, cultural and literary importance. ...

The Aşiyan Museum is installed in the house occupied by the famous Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret from 1906 until his death in 1915 ...

The Military Museum is spread out over two stories in the Mekteb-i Harbiye building, which was originally used to educate military officers during the Ottoman period. ...

Built during the same period as its neighbor the Hagia Sophia, the name of this church in Greek means “Godly” or “Holy Wisdom”. ...

The Hagia Sophia was constructed three different times on the same spot and carries the distinction of being the largest Byzantine Church built in Istanbul. ...

Aynalıkavak is an Ottoman summer palace in Hasköy built in the in the 17th Century. In that period Hasköy was a rural region and the palace was used by the sultans for relaxation and hunting. ...

The Beylerbeyi Palace, on the shore of the Bosphorous and in the district to which it gives it name, is an Ottoman summer palace complex built in the 1860’s. Today it lies right under the Bosphorous bridge. ...

The Mosaic Museum was constructed to preserve a surviving portion of mosaic covering the courtyard of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors which was uncovered during archaeological excavations in 1950’s in the Arasta Çarşı. ...

The Çırağan Palace (Turkish: Çırağan Sarayı) was commissioned by Sultan Abdülaziz and designed by the architect Sarkis Balyan. ...