Istanbul (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Istanbul (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Language: English

Pages: 280

ISBN: 0756625017

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Istanbul will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer. This fully updated guidebook includes 3-D cutaway illustrations, floor plans, and reconstructions of Istanbul's stunning architecture, plus maps of the key districts to explore on foot. There's even a chart showing the walking distances between major sights.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Istanbul covers this city's unforgettable sights in depth and comes complete with a pull-out city map that clearly marks the sights from the guidebook. The map has detailed street views of all the key areas, transportation maps, information on how to get around the city, and an easy-to-use street index.

In this guide, you'll also find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best markets and nightspots to great attractions for children. With hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and maps, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Istanbul shows you what others only tell you.

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secrets, this hotel is dignified and yet immensely friendly. The rooms are elegantly decorated in soothing colours and the restaurant is highly recommended. There is great live music and regular tango evenings are held here. www.armadahotel.com.tr Hotel Sultanahmet Palace e0:z Torun Sokak 19, Sultanahmet, 34122 Tel (0212) 458 04 60 Fax (0212) 518 62 24 Rooms 36 \\\\ Map 3 E5 (5 E5) This is the ideal place to spoil yourself. Less authentically refurbished than some other establishments, it

in Istanbul, but non-Muslims should try to avoid prayer times, especially the main weekly congregation and sermon on Fridays at 1pm. Take off your shoes before entering the prayer hall. Shoulders and knees should be covered. Some mosques require women to cover their hair; scarves can usually be borrowed. Do not eat, take photographs with a flash or stand close to worshippers. A contribution to a donation box or mosque official Board outside a mosque is courteous. giving times of prayer 40 I N

Ferry boarding point Railway station Tram stop Tourist information Mosque Walls The Circumcision Pavilion in the third courtyard of Topkapı Palace $BOLVSUBSBO 52 I S T A N B U L A R E A B Y A R E A Street-by-Street: The First Courtyard of Topkapı The juxtaposition of Ottoman palace walls, intimately proportioned wooden houses and a soaring Byzantine church lends plenty of drama to the First Courtyard, the outer part of Topkapı Palace. This was once a service area, housing the mint, a

destroyed and An imposing monument rebuilt many times located just inside the city walls, the Mihrimah over the years by Mosque complex was built various Byzantine by Sinan between 1562 and emperors, but the 1565. Mihrimah, the daughter present one dates Ruins of the Church of St John of Studius of Süleyman the Magnificent from 1833. The The Shrine of Zoodochus Pege, founded on a sacred spring Shrine of Zoodochus Pege Mihrimah Mosque A L O N G T H E C I T Y WA L L S (see p26), was then

hotels. There are also hotels in Kadıköy, which are used more by Turks than foreigners and tourists. LUXURY HOTELS There has been a rapid growth in the number of luxury hotels in the city, and most international chains are now represented in Istanbul. Almost all five-star hotels boast spectacular Marmara or Bosphorus views, and between them they have some of the best international restaurants in the city. All the major hotels have swimming pools and health clubs. Many of them also have Turkish

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