During this tour you’ll visit several backstreet workshops, engage with local artisans and learn about their work and ways of living. Through these encounters you’ll develop a personal understanding of the local creative culture and its contemporary development.
Your experienced and charismatic English-speaking guide will meet you in a comfortable café and then accompany you through Beyoğlu’s backstreets.
You’ll be taken to hidden-away workshops and introduced to artisans who will be proud to show you what they do. Some will have been working their trade for generations, keeping ancient Ottoman skills alive, while others are fashionable and new, adding a contemporary flair to the city’s creative scene.
Your guide will accommodate your particular interests as much as time allows. There will not be any pressure to buy anything, and there are no commissions involved. You’ll feel very different about Istanbul than you did four hours earlier!
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