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.

Places worth a story

Hagia Sophia
mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey

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

Topkapı Palace
palace museum in Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul University
public university in Istanbul, Turkey

Hippodrome of Constantinople
historic square in Istanbul

Maiden's Tower
lighthouse at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus in Turkey

Walls of Constantinople
city walls of Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)

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

Fatih Istanbul Mosque
mosque in İstanbul, Turkey
Listen on the map → Photo: Ezzeldin.Elbaksawy · CC BY-SA 4.0

Beşiktaş Stadium
association football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey

Little Hagia Sophia
former Greek Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul converted to a mosque

University of Constantinople
defunct university

Sokollu Mehmed Pasha I Mosque
mosque in İstanbul, Turkey
Listen on the map → Photo: Benh LIEU SONG from Torcy, France · CC BY-SA 4.0

Monastery of Stoudios
Greek Orthodox monastery in Constantinople

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
Mihrimah Edirnekapı Mosque
mosque in İstanbul, Turkey

Pammakaristos Church
former church, at present a mosque and museum in Istanbul
Stories are written by an AI from public map and encyclopaedia data and may contain mistakes.