Taksim square has a little bit of everything and is worth a trip to witness people and their interactions.
Hagia Triada Church*
Get to know the cosmopolitan culture of Istanbul on this guided walking tour. Explore the out of the beaten path of Beyoğlu neighborhood and learn where local people hang out, eat and drink.
Beyoglu the old European quarter of the city is Istanbul’s bohemian quarter, full of cafes, street performers and trendy young people.
Passage Hazzopulo
Venetian Neogotic Style largest Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul and has the largest community following its masses.
Pera Museum *
İstiklal Street
The Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews
One of the city's most distinctive sights, this great fortification dating back to 1348 was erected by the mercantile Genoese Italians.
We thoroughly enjoyed our trip with Erol. In fact, we wish his tour had been the first thing we did in Turkey, since he taught us about the food! The tour was a great way to see locations and architecture in Istanbul that we otherwise never would have.
Our guide, Erol, was also our guide for a similar food tour, but made this tour completely different. He shared incredible background of neighborhoods and took us to interesting places we never would have found on our own. Highly recommended.
A delightful trek through the less-traveled alleys, back streets, and hidden gems of the city. A look at local foods and where locals on a budget go to eat them. Didn’t get our guide’s name but it was something like “Errol.” In any event he knew his stuff and appeared to really love his job.
3 hour walking tour of back streets, passages and monuments of Taksim. Our guide made it really interesting and took us to places we would otherwise not have found.
Really great way to explore this part of the city. Erol was an amazing and detailed guide, he shared so many details and knows all the best spots you'll never find on your own!
This tour was exactly what was advertised. We enjoyed getting out of the Old City and seeing a different area. Kim, our guide, was friendly and knowledgeable. She recommended an excellent restaurant for dinner.
Erol was a terrific guide, informing and entertaining us with the history and landmarks of the area. Without him, we wouldn’t have known about places “off the beaten track”. Erol had great recommendations of areas to eat and suggested different foods that we knew nothing about. Our only regret is that we didn’t take his tour at the beginning of our stay in Istanbul.
Kim was an amazing guide-knowledgeable and charming. We saw places that we would never have seen on our own and got a lot of good tips for restaurants etc. Well worth doing.
Lovely walk around the new city, saw some very interesting and historical places. Elif was very knowledgeable and gave great recommendations!
My guide was Excelent, he explain many local costumes, coffe, food, secrets etc, zi enjoyed a lot and learnt also. His name is Erol Utgul
Glad I did this short tour as it gave a greater insight into life in Istanbul. What was of interest in particular was to see locals going about their daily lives. It gave me a different perspective than only seeing tourist destinations. The tunnel metro was also of interest, not speaking or reading Turkish I had walked past the bottom entry several times without understanding what it was. Erol the guide was good also and spoke good English and easy to understand. This tour is short but worthwhile and I would recommend it if you have seen all the historical sites
This was amazing! So informative and all the hidden passages I would never have found. Erol is a very knowledgeable and lovely guide - I enjoyed this so much. If you are coming to Istanbul you must do this!
My boyfriend and i had a really nice solo tour with Erol. We startet at Taskim and ended at Galata Tower. He showed as typical and unknown places were we can have drinks/food. After our tour we instantly tried shalep and köfte😇 it was really good and we are thankful for those recommendations
Erol Utgun was an excellent tour guide. He made an effort and took his time to talk us fascinating history and food culture. He took us through passages and to little shops we would otherwise never have known about.
Erol Utgun was an excellent tour guide. He really made an effort and took his time to tell us fascinating history and Turkish food culture and show us little shops and passages we would otherwise never have seen. Highly recommend.
Excellent tour with a great guy, Erol. Informative and interesting. Many great insider tips. Highly recommended.
Our tour guide, i think her name is Efol, beautiful reddish hair and terrific personality… well she made the tour a complete pleasure despite the bit of rain today. It was just my husband and i and she was so fun of not only history but interesting trivia in many areas. She was one of the most pleasant guides we had had in all our travels. The passages and their history were amazing. She is kind and very courteous. He helped us get a taxi home because it was dark. She is highly recommended by both of us!!! Thank you so much Efol
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