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Walks in Cankurtaran.

One editor-picked walk through Cankurtaran, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.

The sea-walls counterpart to Yedikule — Byzantine sea defences, a working lighthouse, Hagia Sophia from below.

Nearby

Other walks close to Cankurtaran.

Sorted by distance from the start of cankurtaran: the marmara sea walls and the lighthouse. Good for stitching together a longer day.

Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Cistern — in the right order, at the right time. Dawn start, coffee break built in.

Mahmud I's 1741 hamam, the surviving Ottoman government gate, and the streets where Istanbul's papers lived.

The Armenian and Greek quarter on the south side — fish meyhanes in covered passages, the patriarchates around them.

The Kapalıçarşı at nine in the morning — locals shopping, no tour groups, the architecture finally visible.