istanbul · an area
Walks in Emirgan.
One editor-picked walk through Emirgan, plus nearby routes for the same morning if you want to keep going.
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.
