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Walks in Çengelköy.

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

Three-hour Turkish breakfast under the plane tree, then a sahil walk south to Beylerbeyi Palace.

Nearby

Other walks close to Çengelköy.

Sorted by distance from the start of çengelköy: the kahvaltı village to beylerbeyi palace. Good for stitching together a longer day.

Synagogue, two churches, mosque — all on one street, with the Bosphorus at the end.

Two Bosphorus villages connected by a kilometre and a half of painted wooden waterfront mansions.

Mehmed II's 1452 siege fortress at the water, the Ottoman poet's hilltop house and writers' cemetery above it.

Bayezid I's 1394 fortress at the Bosphorus's narrowest stretch, looking across at Rumelihisarı.