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  • A la Turca

    The rapidly gentrifying side streets between Cihangir and İstiklâl Caddesi are lined with shops selling antiques, furniture, and weird-but-wonderful j

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  • Abdulla

  • Anjelique

    A sultry waterside club set against the glowing Baroque Ortaköy Mosque.

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  • Archaeological Museum

    The world-class museum's garden alone begs a look. Inside, there are outstanding ancient sarcophagi, Byzantine sculpture, and Roman busts.

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  • Asmalı Mescit

    Lining the narrow, labyrinthine streets behind the Çiçek passage off İstiklâl Caddesi are hundreds of bars, taverns (called meyhane), and outdoor café

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  • Atasay

    Jewelry has a distinctive Turkish sensibility at this duty-free shop. The designers employ historical Anatolian jewelry-making techniques and motifs.

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  • Aviation Museum

    If you have a few hours to kill and feel adventurous, take a five-minute taxi ride to military-aviation paradise: the Istanbul Aviation Museum in the

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  • Babylon, Istanbul

    The live-music venue that sparked the area’s renaissance. The live acts range from Cuban rap to Turkish folk music—but the club will definitely be pac

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  • Barok Jewellery

    This family-owned Turkish chain sells lovely and unusual pieces that reflect Turkey’s cultural heritage. The designers use precious and semiprecious m

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  • Basilica Cistern

    What Lies Beneath: Eighty-two feet below Istanbul is a 450-foot-long, 213-foot-wide former royal reservoir. This Byzantine engineering feat has 336 mi

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  • Beymen

  • Beyoglu

    Colonized for centuries by non-muslim minorities and foreign traders, the district of Beyoglu (pronounced be-yoh-LU and formerly known as Pera), acros

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  • Chalcedony

  • Church of the Holy Savior of Chora

    Hard to find—Edirnekapı is not used to tourists, and the signage is terrible—but worth the effort, this pumpkin-domed church-turned-museum is one of t

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  • Delights

    If you want to bring baklava back home, don’t buy it in the city—you’ll get syrup all over your luggage. Buy it here. Delights is supplied by one of t

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  • Dervis

  • Eyüp Sultan Mosque

    Beyond the ancient city walls on the south bank of the Golden Horn, this stately mosque—one of Istanbul’s most sacred Muslim sites—is flanked by massi

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  • Fitness Center

    This is the only gym at the airport. Unfortunately, it isn’t convenient for international layover passengers: you have to go through Passport Control

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  • Gönül Paksoy

    At her combination museum-shop, owner Gönül Paksoy turns everyday objects into pieces of art and creates hand-dyed silk coats with vintage beads.

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  • Grand Bazaar

    This massive, dazzling, and cacophonous covered market is the ur-bazaar of the Orient; if you’ve envisioned what it will be like, prepare to have your

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  • Great Palace Mosaic Museum

    Istanbul's major state-run museums charge hefty admissions, but the Great Palace Mosaic Museum, just behind the Blue Mosque adjacent to the Arasta Baz

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  • Haci Bekir

    Try the Turkish Delight in flavors like mint and pistachio at this exotic candy shop.

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  • Hagia Sophia

    The greatest surviving example of Byzantine architecture and one of the eight wonders of the world, Hagia Sophia reigned as the greatest church in Chr

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