- 4 Hours
- Museum
- History
- Accessibiliy
- Shopping
- Audio Guide
- Tour Guide
Fener Balat by Cruise
Do you want to discover deeper and more traditional places that are out of the conventional? Come and join this short 4-hour tour that will take you through streets, mosques and surprising places to get a closer look at Turkish culture and its more traditional contrasts. In addition, you will take a boat ride on the Golden Horn of Istanbul. Book with us and don't miss it!
Included in the Tour
- Pick up from hotel free of charge, but return at your own expense.
- Golden Horn cruise ticket.
- Public transportation ticket.
- Accredited official guide fluent in English.
Not Included in the Tour
- Food and beverages.
- Return transfer.
Itinerary
This tour will start by picking you up at your hotel; then we will head towards Karakoy area and board our boat as the first point. Boarding time will be from 13:45 hours. For 40 minutes, in the company of our guide we will be able to appreciate on the horizon the beautiful mosques raised on the famous 7 hills of Istanbul which we will then be able to walk around, passing through different neighborhoods and going into less touristy areas, which in these modern times still reflect the daily life of 500 years ago.
Once our short cruise is over, we will get off near the Eyup Mosque to walk downhill along the coast and the bay of the Golden Horn, mingling with the Turkish inhabitants, entering its streets, to admire the remarkable contrasts of its architecture and especially in the cultural, harmoniously coexisting the eastern and western.
During 4 hours we will appreciate several places, taking a city bus that will bring us to the second point of our destination, the Fatih Mosque (Fatih Cami) in Turkish, "The Mosque of the Conqueror", a prime example of Turkish-Islamic architecture in Istanbul and was built by the emblematic Turkish architect Mimar Mehmet.
Then we will visit the Yavuz Selim Mosque, the second oldest imperial mosque in Istanbul and was built by one of the great sultans of the time, Suleiman the Magnificent.
Then we will pass through the neighborhood of Carcamba, a very traditional and conservative place that will show us the most authentic Turkish daily life, Here we can find several important monuments dating from the Byzantine era and its streets will discover a peculiar way of life, whether its stores, bars, etc.. It is an area rarely visited by tourists.
Continuing with the tour we will go to the bohemian neighborhoods of Fener and Balat, to see their charming houses and streets. Undoubtedly, they are the neighborhoods or areas with more history of all Istanbul. In these Jewish neighborhoods you will appreciate its colorful architecture and cultural richness.
We will then visit the splendid red brick building, shaped like a castle, called "The Red School". This building houses the Greek private school, one of the schools that are still active and that stands out for its architecture and historical value. Another of the monuments to appreciate will be the Iron Church, a temple of the Bulgarian spirit in that Turkish city, related to the struggle for ecclesiastical independence of the 30s and 40s of the nineteenth century, is the only orthodox iron church in the world.
This was the culmination of this pleasant and memorable tour of the places less frequented by tourists.