Anadoluhisarı

The village on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus that takes its name from a small castle built by Ottoman sultan Yıldırım Beyazit long before the fall of Constantinople on the edge of a small valley where two small rivers, the Göksu and Küçüksu, the fabled Sweet Waters of Asia, flow either side of what must once have been an idyllic meadow. It never really recovered from being used to store building material for the First Bosphorus Bridge in the 1970s. But the Göksu at least has retained a little of its charm, there is a greater concentration of important yalıs than anywhere else on the Bosphorus, and a delightful wedding cake of a 19th-century palace, the Küçüksu Kasrı.