Çamlıca, Üsküdar

[3] From as early as 1654 in the reign of Sultan Mehmed IV this woodland area near Kısıklı Metro station was landscaped and is now full of mature deciduous and evergreen trees.

In 1940 Istanbul Governor Lütfı Kırdar had it turned into a public recreation area, now very popular with picnickers.

Right beside the woodland is the modern Çilehane Cami, built beside a small 17th-century stone building, much restored over the centuries, where a holy man named Aziz Mahmud Hüdayı Efendi once lived with his family in two simple rooms.

[4] In the Acıbadem neighbourhood of Çamlıca stands a crumbling wooden mansion designed by architect Kemaleddin Bey for the Vice-Admiral Ahmed Ratıp Paşa.

The pasha never got to live in his mansion because of a scandal over the funding of the Hejaz railway, and in 1938 it was converted to house the local high school for girls.