Beylerbeyi

Beylerbeyi is a quiet Bosphorus village on the Asian shore, defined by the white marble palace Sultan Abdülaziz completed in 1865 as a summer residence for visiting royalty. The shoreline beneath the first Bosphorus Bridge is lined with wooden yalıs, tea gardens, and small balık ekmek stands that fill up on weekends. Narrow lanes rising from the pier lead past the 18th-century Hamid-i Evvel Mosque and into residential streets that have kept their village scale.