Istanbul-Turkey - BALAT - FENER - City Tour

Istanbul-Turkey - FENER - BALAT - City walking Tour

Balat is a down-to-earth neighborhood of narrow cobbled streets and colorful houses, where hip cafes and cutting-edge galleries sit next to old-school neighborhood grocers. Buildings like the Greek Ecumenical Patriarchate basilica, synagogues, and Byzantine churches attest to the area's cosmopolitan past as a center for Jewish, Greek, and Armenian communities. The Chora Museum has golden mosaics and vibrant frescoes.

In lovely Fener, sidewalk cafes and European-Turkish bistros share the streets with old wooden houses and small, stately churches like the Saint Stefan Bulgarian Orthodox Church, made of cast iron, and the 7th-century Church of St. Mary of the Mongols. Along the waterfront, İbb Haliç Şair Nedim Parkı has walking paths and a ferry terminal, with connections down the Golden Horn and across to the city’s Asian side

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[fatihliefendi]

I had the chance to see the places where I was born and raised one more time before I die. Thank you very much.

[enwooenwoo]

Beautiful video. How far for istanbul? By bus or tram to balat from sultan ahmet?