İSTANBUL DIRECTORATE OF CULTURE AND TOURISM

Immovable Cultural Heritage and Protected Areas

İstanbul is very rich in terms of immovable cultural assets, and as of  2021, it is home to 32.854 immovable cultural assets and 114 protected areas.
The distribution of immovable cultural assets and protected areas are given in the tables below.

IMMOVABLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

 NUMBER

Streets under protection

14

Monuments and Landmarks

81

Administrative Buildings

576

Cultural Buildings

2614

Martyrdoms

10

Military Buildings

146

Industrial and Commercial Buildings

664

Religious Buildings

1394

Cemetaries

868

Civil Architecture

25646

Ruins

841

TOTAL

32854



Protected Areas

NUMBER

Archaelogical Areas

71

Urban Areas

28

Historical Areas

6

Urban Archaleogical Area

1

Mixed Protected Areas


Archaelogical and Urban Area

1

Archalelogical and Historical Area

1

Historical and Urban Areas

6

TOTAL

114