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Buy/gift a digital subscription Login to the Digital EditionPera House in Tepebaşı, Stratford Canning’s British Embassy, is pure Pall Mall. Although the Scottish architect William James Smith is credited as having built it, Charles Barry – better known for his Palace of Westminster – is also said to have had a hand. The choice of location is strange – a garden overlooking the once smelly Golden Horn, rather than the breezy Bosphorus.
These days, it still acts at the British Consulate and sometimes as a venue for concerts, lectures and other events.

Issue 68, July 2025
Angora’s Mesmerising Beauty
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