Istanbul is a city like no other, sitting on two continents: Europe and Asia. The Bosphorus Strait splits it, linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Its skyline is filled with minarets and ...

Where Europe meets Asia, Istanbul is a dizzying array of Byzantine treasures and soaring minarets, bisected by the Bosphorus strait. Though it’s long captivated visitors with its ancient charms, a ...

In the grand old city of Istanbul, there is a lot that’s newly built and stridently flashy. In the last decade or so entire swaths of steep, winding streets have been dug up and replaced with ...

Some cities whisper their past. Istanbul shouts it from the rooftops, the domes, and the water. Nowhere is this more vivid than along the Bosphorus—the strait that quite literally divides continents ...

History is being rewritten with archaeological excavations at Haydarpasa Train Station in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, which was known as Chalcedon (the Land of the Blind) in ancient times. The ...

Do you prefer your sheep's head roasted and hot, or boiled and cold? No matter. One street in Beyoglu, Istanbul's old European district, offers both sorts of sheep's head ( kelle), considered an ...