Tella

Istanbul audio guide

Tella is a free audio guide for any place on Earth. Here are 30 places in Istanbul worth a story. Open one on the map and hear it read aloud in English, or take the Android app on a walk and let it narrate whatever you pass.

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Places worth a story

  1. Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia

    mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Adli Wahid · CC BY-SA 3.0

  2. Sultan Ahmed Mosque

    Sultan Ahmed Mosque

    historic mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey, also known as Blue Mosque

    Listen on the map → Photo: Pedro Szekely from Los Angeles, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

  3. Topkapı Palace

    Topkapı Palace

    palace museum in Istanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Carlos Delgado · CC BY-SA 3.0

  4. Süleymaniye Mosque

    Süleymaniye Mosque

    mosque in İstanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Hunanuk · CC0

  5. Istanbul University

    Istanbul University

    public university in Istanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Zafer · CC BY-SA 4.0

  6. Maiden's Tower

    Maiden's Tower

    lighthouse at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus in Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 2.0

  7. Chora Church

    Chora Church

    church converted to mosque in Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Tadam · CC0

  8. Şehzade Mosque

    Şehzade Mosque

    mosque in İstanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Viceskeeni2 · CC0

  9. Walls of Constantinople

    Walls of Constantinople

    city walls of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)

    Listen on the map → Photo: Apaleutos25 · CC BY-SA 4.0

  10. Hagia Irene

    Hagia Irene

    Byzantine church building in Istanbul, Turkey now a hall and museum

    Listen on the map → Photo: Ninara · CC BY 2.0

  11. Beşiktaş Stadium

    Beşiktaş Stadium

    association football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Beşiktaş JK · CC BY 2.0

  12. Little Hagia Sophia

    Little Hagia Sophia

    former Greek Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul converted to a mosque

    Listen on the map → Photo: fusion-of-horizons · CC BY 2.0

  13. Spice Bazaar

    Spice Bazaar

    food market in Istanbul, Turkey

    Listen on the map → Photo: Robot8A · CC BY-SA 4.0

  14. Monastery of Stoudios

    Monastery of Stoudios

    Greek Orthodox monastery in Constantinople

    Listen on the map → Photo: Dosseman · CC BY-SA 4.0

  15. Obelisk of Theodosius

    Obelisk of Theodosius

    ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known today as At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, in the modern city of Istanbul, Turkey) by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD

    Listen on the map → Photo: Apaleutos25 · CC BY-SA 4.0

  16. Pammakaristos Church

    Pammakaristos Church

    former church, at present a mosque and museum in Istanbul

    Listen on the map → Photo: İlaydaozcan · CC BY-SA 4.0

Stories are written by an AI from public map and encyclopaedia data and may contain mistakes.