Strolling Through Istanbul

The best travel guide to Istanbul * The Times * A guide book that reads like a novel * The New York Times *

The late Hilary Sumner-Boyd was professor of humanities at Robert College, Bosphorus University. His magisterial work, The Seven Hills of Constantinople: A Study of the Byzantine and Turkish Monuments of the City, was unpublished at the time of his death in 1977 but has since been published by Bosphorus University Press. John Freely (1926-2017) was one of the most widely respected writers of travel books, histories and guides about Greece and Turkey. His works include The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles, The Cyclades, The Ionian Islands, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice and the bestselling Strolling through Istanbul (all I.B. Tauris).

List of Maps and Plans List of Plates Notes on Turkish Words and Spelling Turkish Spelling Acknowledgements Preface to the Revised Edition Preface to the First Edition 1. The View from the Bridge 2. From the Galata Bridge to Haghia Sophia 3. Haghia Sophia 4. Topkapi Sarayi 5. Through the Outer Gardens of the Saray 6. Around the Blue Mosque 7. From Haghia Sophia to Beyazit Square 8. Through the Markets and Bazaars 9. Around Beyazit and Sehzadebasi 10. The Sleymaniye 11. From the Galata Bridge to Sehzadebasi 12. Around the Mosque of the Conqueror 13. The Fifth and Sixth Hills 14. Kariye Camii 15. Along the Golden Horn 16. The Seventh Hill 17. Along the Land Walls 18. Up the Golden Horn to Eyp 19. skdar and the Princes Islands 20. Pera and Galata 21. The Lower Bosphorus European Shore 22. The Bosphorus 23. A Last Stroll Appendices Byzantine Emperors Ottoman Sultans Notes on Byzantine Architectural Forms Glossary of Turkish Architectural Terms Sinans Extant Works in Istanbul Indexes