10 stops · 3 films · 18 km end to end

Bond's
Istanbul

From Russia with Love's cistern, Skyfall's rooftop chase and a villain's tower in the Bosphorus.

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From Russia with Love (1963) · Pinpoint · Public
Sirkeci railway station
Bond and Tatiana board the Orient Express with the stolen machine, and everyone on the platform seems to be watching them.
Stand hereThe old platform hall under the arched windows of the 1890 station.
↓ 538 m from the last stop
Skyfall (2012) · Pinpoint · Public
Eminönü Square
A Land Rover ploughs through a market under the minarets of a great mosque, mid-chase.
Stand hereIn front of the New Mosque (Yeni Cami), looking back towards the Galata Bridge.
↓ 742 m from the last stop
Skyfall (2012) · Pinpoint · Public
Grand Bazaar rooftops
A motorbike chase across the domed roofs of the world's oldest covered market.
↓ 14 m from the last stop
From Russia with Love (1963) · Vicinity · Public
Grand Bazaar (Kapalı Çarşı)
Bond's ally runs his station from a hidden office deep in a maze of covered alleys.
Stand hereEnter by the Nuruosmaniye Gate and walk the main Kalpakçılar street. Tram: Çemberlitaş or Beyazıt.
↓ 799 m from the last stop
From Russia with Love (1963) · Vicinity · Public
Kalenderhane
An assassin climbs out of a hatch hidden in a giant film poster, straight into a marksman's sights.
↓ 1.6 km from the last stop
From Russia with Love (1963) · Pinpoint · Ticketed / opening hours
Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı)
Yerebatan Caddesi 1/3, Fatih
Kerim Bey rows Bond through a flooded Byzantine reservoir to a periscope that looks straight up into the Soviet consulate.
Stand hereThe walkway at the far end, with lit columns reflected in the water.
↓ 194 m from the last stop
From Russia with Love (1963) · Pinpoint · Ticketed / opening hours
Hagia Sophia
Bond waits under the vast dome to collect the decoder plans, while a man shadowing him is silently killed behind a pillar.
Stand hereUpper gallery, looking across the nave. Bond waits on the ground floor among the marble columns.
↓ 2.4 km from the last stop
The World Is Not Enough (1999) · Pinpoint · Ticketed / opening hours
Maiden's Tower (Kız Kulesi)
A tiny island tower in the Bosphorus becomes a terrorist's lair, and Bond is strapped to a garrotte chair inside it.
Stand hereFrom the Salacak shore in Üsküdar at sunset.
↓ 4.6 km from the last stop
From Russia with Love (1963) · Vicinity · Public
Halaskargazi Caddesi by Şişli Mosque
A grand street front with a mosque behind it plays the outside of the Soviet consulate.
↓ 6.8 km from the last stop
The World Is Not Enough (1999) · Pinpoint · Ticketed / opening hours
Küçüksu Pavilion
An oil heiress's waterfront villa, with the pipeline business conducted between the chandeliers.
Stand hereThe rococo front faces the Bosphorus. Ferries pass right by it.

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