İlber Ortaylı Route
The historic-peninsula walk described by historian İlber Ortaylı in interviews and TV programs — starting at Eminönü and ending at Sultanahmet via Süleymaniye, Zeyrek, Balat, the city walls and Yedikule.
- Остановки
- 9
- Расстояние
- 9 km
- Длительность
- 360 мин
- Сложность
- Средний

Остановки
- 1Eminönü Square
The starting point of the route. Ortaylı describes this as the city's trade hub throughout Byzantine and Ottoman times.
- ~4 мин · 300 m2Rıza Paşa Slope
Climbing up from Tahtakale, this steep slope is where Ottoman commercial life pulsed.
- ~6 мин · 460 m3Süleymaniye Mosque
According to Ortaylı, the center of Ottoman scholarship and intellectual life; the madrasa and complex fabric still stands.
- ~9 мин · 700 m4Zeyrek Mosque
A hilltop neighborhood overlooking the Golden Horn, where Byzantine (Pantokrator) and Ottoman traces intertwine.
- ~8 мин · 610 m5Fatih Mosque
The new city center Mehmed the Conqueror built after the conquest of Istanbul.
- ~13 мин · 1,1 km6Balat
A multicultural historic Golden Horn neighborhood where Byzantine and Ottoman heritage sit side by side.
- ~10 мин · 810 m7Kariye Mosque / Kariye Museum
Ortaylı calls the walk along the walls "the most beautiful walking route"; it leads here to Chora.
- ~40 мин · 3,2 km8Bayezid Mosque
A historic center of education and culture passed on the way back.
- ~12 мин · 980 m9Sultanahmet Square (Hippodrome)
The end of the route: according to Ortaylı, "the best Istanbul tour is completed in this area."
Время между остановками — примерная оценка по прямой.
Путь мы проложили. Остальное — за Стамбулом.