istanbul · an area
Walks in Emirgan.
One walking route through Emirgan — a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk — plus nearby routes for the same morning.
Nearby
Other walks close to Emirgan.
Sorted by distance from the start of emirgan to sarıyer: tulip park, calligraphy museum, fish lunch. Good for stitching together a longer day.
heritageliterary3 km · 75 min · Moderate· Claude-drafted
Rumelihisarı and Aşiyan: the fortress and the poet's hill
Mehmed II's 1452 siege fortress at the water, the Ottoman poet's hilltop house and writers' cemetery above it.
heritagewaterfront3 km · 75 min · Easy· Claude-drafted
Anadolu Hisarı and Göksu: the older, smaller fortress
Bayezid I's 1394 fortress at the Bosphorus's narrowest stretch, looking across at Rumelihisarı.
waterfrontvillagey3 km · 75 min · Moderate· Claude-drafted
Bebek to Arnavutköy: the yalı sahil
Two Bosphorus villages connected by a kilometre and a half of painted wooden waterfront mansions.
heritagewaterfront3 km · 75 min · Moderate· Claude-drafted
Tarabya to Yeniköy: embassy summer houses and the wooden yalıs
The old Greek summer-resort village where European embassies still keep their summer residences, walking south to Yeniköy.