historic istanbul

🏰 Yedikule and İstanbul's Walls: From the Golden Gate to Understanding the Fortified City Yedikule offers more than a chance to see seven towers. It is a useful place to understand how a ceremonial gate in Constantinople's walls became an Ottoman fortress, then a site of restoration and culture...

🏛️ Bringing old buildings back into use Istanbul’s transformation extends beyond roads, metro lines and towers. Palaces, caravanserais (hans), walls, old factories and historic water structures are also changing. A defining trend in the August 2026 overview is the move from repairing façades to...