Hagia Sophia Mosque

Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city’s Latin Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935, the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.

St. Antoine Church

The original St. Anthony of Padua Church was built in 1725 by the local Italian community of Istanbul, but was later demolished and replaced with the current building which was constructed on the same location. The current St. Anthony of Padua, along with its adjacent buildings (known as the St. Antoine Apartmanları) on İstiklal Avenue, was built between 1906 and 1912 in the Venetian Neo-Gothic style, and was likewise edificed by the local Italian community of the city, mostly of Genoese and Venetian descent, who amounted to 40,000 people at the turn of the 20th century.

Galata Tower

The Romanesque style tower was built as Christea Turris (“Tower of Christ”) in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople. Galata Tower was the tallest building in Constantinople at 219.5 ft (66.9 m) when it was built in 1348.

Rumeli Fortress

The Fortress Museum incorporates Rumeli, Yedikule and Anadolu Fortresses. Among all, Rumeli Fortress however clearly stands out. The Fortress covering a 30-acre area in Sarıyer, also gives its name to the location. It was built in a short period of four months. By Mehmet the Conqueror in 1452 before the conquest of Istanbul in order to prevent attacks and block aids from the north of Bosphorus. This monument is located opposite the Anadolu Fortress, built by Sultan I. Beyazıt in 1394, and is located in the narrowest part of the Bosphorus.

The Blue Mosque

Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed’s tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets and eight secondary domes.

Tünel

In 1867 a French engineer, Eugène-Henri Gavand, came to Constantinople as a tourist.[3] During his visit, he was taken aback at the number of people travelling on Yüksek Kaldırım Avenue. Gavand thought of a method to connect these two areas, and came up with building a funicular railway that would ascend and descend the hill. Gavand went back to France shortly after to prepare his project. He returned to Constantinople in February 1868 to present his project to the Sublime Porte. The railway would run from beginning of Yüksek Kaldırım Avenue in Pera to Yenicami street and close to the Galata Bridge in Galata. On 10 June 1869 Sultan Abdülaziz granted Gavand with a concession to build the railway.

Mısır Apartmanı

The apartment was built in 1910 by Ottoman Armenian architect Hovsep Aznavur and commissioned by Khedive of Egypt Abbas II.The building was built as a winter residence for Abbas and was used by him and his family for many years.

It is now home to an art gallery featuring many art events and exhibitions.

Taksim Square

Taksim Square in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the central station of the Istanbul Metro network. Taksim Square is also the location of the Republic Monument which was crafted by Pietro Canonica and inaugurated in 1928.

Asmalı Mescit

Isikital Avenue also runs through the heart of Asmali Mescit adding to options for shopping and fast-food, so you’ll find it all to be quite busy throughout the day and night.

The Flower Passage

Cicek Pasaji or Flower Passage is the historical passage way originally name Cite de Pera in the middle of Istiklal Avenue. You’ll find it right across the Galatasaray University where the visitors may enjoy the lively atmosphere of its lively restaurants.

Nevizade Street

The lively terrace-atmosphere of the narrow Nevizade Sokak (street) are filled with cafes, fish restaurants, meyhanes and more. This quarter-mile, pedestrian-only throughway, is the center of Istanbul nightlife and stays busy all week long till the morning comes.

Salt Galata and Salt Beyoglu

SALT Beyoğlu is a six-story building on İstiklal Caddesi. Constructed in the second half of the 19th century under the name Siniossoglou Apartment, it functioned as a retail space on street level and residences on its upper floors. Starting from the 1950s, Siniossoglou lost its residential function due to decline in the population in Beyoğlu district yet began to host commercial, political and artistic activities while still in use for retail purposes. 

Istanbul Modern Art Museum

Istanbul Modern was founded in 2004 as Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art. Committed to sharing Turkey’s artistic creativity and cultural identity with the local and international art worlds, the museum hosts a broad array of interdisciplinary activities.

Pera Museum

The Pera Museum was founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation in 2005. The museum is located in the historic building of the former Bristol Hotel, which was designed by architect Achille Manoussos and built in 1893 It was renovated between 2003 and 2005 by architect Sinan Genim, who preserved the facade of the building and transformed the interior into a modern and fully equipped museum.