🇹🇷 Turkey
29 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Old Palace, 1 km east of the city centre; the most famous is Topkapı Palace — #19 of 8,133 worldwide — 2 km east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Palace of Antiochos, founded c. 425.
Every one of them stands in Turkey — the country page shows the full national picture.
2 km east · Palace & château · #19 worldwide
The Topkapı Palace or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey.
5 km north-east · Palace & château · #55 worldwide
Dolmabahçe Palace is a 19th-century imperial palace located in Istanbul, Turkey, along the European shore of the Bosporus, which served as the main…
3 km west · Fortress · #96 worldwide
The walls of Constantinople are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople since its founding as…
2 km east · Ruin · #242 worldwide
The Great Palace of Constantinople, also known as the Sacred Palace, was the large imperial Byzantine palace complex located in the south-eastern end…
12 km north-east · Fortress · #301 worldwide
Rumelihisarı or Boğazkesen Fortress is a medieval Ottoman fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey, on a series of hills on the European banks of the…
6 km north-east · Palace & château · #322 worldwide
Yıldız Palace is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, built in the 19th and early 20th…
2 km east · Palace & château · #368 worldwide
The Kafes, literally "cage", was the part of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Palace where possible successors to the throne were kept under a form…
8 km north-east · Palace & château · #377 worldwide
The Beylerbeyi Palace is a 19th-century Ottoman palace located in the Beylerbeyi neighborhood of Istanbul’s Üsküdar district, on the Asian shore of…
4 km south-west · Fortress · #400 worldwide
Yedikule Fortress is a fortified historic structure located in the Yedikule neighbourhood of Fatih, in Istanbul, Turkey.
6 km north-east · Palace & château
Çırağan Palace, a former Ottoman palace, is now a five-star hotel in the Kempinski Hotels chain.
2 km south-east · Palace & château
The Palace of Boukoleon or Bucoleon was one of the Byzantine palaces in Constantinople.
3 km north-west · Palace & château
The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus, known in Turkish as the Tekfur Sarayı, is a late 13th-century Byzantine palace in the north-western part of the…
+ 13 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
26 km east · Ruin
Aydos Castle is the ruin of a summit castle. As the castle site, the 537 m high Aydos hill, the highest point of Istanbul, was chosen.
58 km east · Castle
Şile Castle or Ocaklı Ada Castle is a castle located on Ocaklı Island in the Şile district of Istanbul.
32 km north-east · Castle
Riva Castle, is a Byzantine coastal fortification situated on a hill where Riva Creek meets the Black Sea in Riva, Beykoz, Istanbul.
28 km north-east · Ruin
Rumelifeneri Castle, or Topçu Castle, is a castle dating from the 17th century on the slopes of Rumelifeneri in Istanbul.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q406.
The Castlemap atlas maps 29 landmarks (2 castles · 4 fortresses · 16 palaces & châteaux · 7 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Istanbul, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Old Palace, a ruin 1 km east of the city centre.
Topkapı Palace, ranked #19 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 2 km east from Istanbul.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Palace of Antiochos, founded c. 425 — 1 km east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
