AA Essential Istanbul

AAA Essential Guides

by Sylvie Franquet, Anthony Sattin

Essential Istanbul helps visitors make sense of this dizzying urban center, giving complete background and directions to such impressive sights as the beautiful Aya Sophia Church, the Blue Mosque, and the palace of the Sultans. Includes color photos and maps.

Paperback

First published March 15, 1996

Reviews

[James]

Took to Istanbul 07.24

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

As travel guides go, this isn’t bad. It lists all the major attractions together with some information about their history. But a lot has happened since then. What the guide doesn’t do is go into the geographical scale of the city. There’s very little detail about getting around from place to place, and rather than dividing the city up into districts it simply provides lists and information about the attractions. As it’s an AA guide, it does go into driving routes around the city but doesn’t comment about the other methods available. When it comes to night life, there’s lots of information about specific places but it doesn’t go into detail about the areas or display maps that they’re in. this book might be great if you spot it at a car boot sale to get a flavour of the city’s history, but I’d highly recommend something much more up to date if you’re looking for information to rely on.