SEE ISTANBUL ANEW

One place. Many times.

Discover Istanbul’s historic places from wherever you are. Follow short stories through people, events and the sources behind them.

Explore the time wheel

The past of Istanbul begins where you are.

TIME ON THE MAP

Change the year. Reveal the city’s layers.

Drag the year wheel at the lower right. Places on the map change according to whether they existed in that year. Open a place to see its period at that time.

Pick a year
See the places
Open the period

Periods without sources are not filled with invented stories.

The app with 1900 selected, showing the Hagia Sophia card and year wheel.

What lies beneath a place?

Choose a point on the map. Start with a short card, then follow its periods, people and supporting sources.

Choose a place

Find places nearby or pick one yourself on the map.

Move through time

Open periods in order. Gaps without sources stay gaps.

Follow the evidence

Explore links to people and events, then open the sources.

Placeago visit screen listing people who were at the same place at different times.

The shared-place section on a Placeago person page.

AFTER YOUR VISIT

The same place. Different times.

Complete a visit to see people whose presence at that place is documented. Their date and your visit appear together on the person page.

Only documented presence counts. This does not mean you were there at the same time.

Short discoveries

Each card makes one point. Go deeper when you want to.

Visible sources

See the records behind historical claims.

Your own pace

Choose places without granting location access.

Take Istanbul with you.

Placeago is being prepared for iOS and Android. Store links will open here when the app is released.

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Store links will become active when the app is released.

The app interface is available in these eight languages; historical content is currently being prepared in Turkish and English.