Our Mission
Our Mission
To safeguard and retell the Italian memory of Istanbul, one step at a time.
We believe heritage is not a list of monuments but a living fabric of people, crafts and encounters. In Beyoğlu — historic Pera — Italy is not a distant memory: it lives in the façades, the churches, the schools and the squares that still breathe two cultures.
Our mission is to weave these threads into a narrative that is both accessible and rigorous. Walking together becomes a way of reading the city — not as passing tourists, but as curious heirs to a history shared between Italy and Turkey.
We do this with philological care and artistic sensibility, under the aegis of the Italian Cultural Institute, because culture is not preserved by locking it in a case, but by continuing to walk through it.
Italian Cultural Institute · Istanbul