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Karaköy is a popular place to eat especially seafood, with several fish restaurants gathered around the local fish market. More fish restaurants line the underside of the Galata Bridge . Galataport is a large new dining and shopping development along the waterside.
Artiste Terasse (Artist Teras) on Cezayir Street is a popular restaurant-bar which offers panoramic views of the Hagia Sophia, Topkapı Palace, Sultan Ahmed Mosque and Galata Tower. Cezayir Street, also known as Rue Française, is famous for its pubs and restaurants playing live music.
At the time the Galata Tower, at 219.5 ft (66.9 m), was the tallest building in the city. [ 4 ] After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, the Genoese colony was abolished and most of the walls of the citadel were later pulled down in the 19th century, during the northward expansion of the city in the districts of Beyoğlu and ...
[24] [25] [26] The Camondo family also built two historic apartment buildings in Galata, both of which are named Kamondo Apartmanı: the older one is located at Serdar-ı Ekrem Street near Galata Tower and was built between 1861 and 1868; [24] while the newer one is located at the corner between Felek Street and Hacı Ali Street and was built ...
Galataport is a 400,000-square-metre (4,300,000 sq ft) [1] mixed-use development located along 1.2 km (0.75 mi) of shore in the Karaköy (formerly called Galata) neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey on the European shore of the Bosporus strait near its confluence with the Golden Horn right in the heart of the city.
Kuledibi ("foot of the tower" in Turkish) is a quarter of İstanbul's Beyoğlu district. The term is generally used to describe the surrounding areas around the Galata Tower . The region extends to the streets parallel to Voyvoda Street in the south, Okçu Musa Street in the west (forming the upper part of Bankalar Caddesi ), Yüksek Kaldırım ...
Map of Istanbul's Historic Peninsula (lower left), showing the location of the Golden Horn and Sarayburnu (Seraglio Point) in relation to Bosphorus strait, as well as historically significant sites (black), and various notable neighborhoods An aerial view of Galata (foreground), the Historic Peninsula (background), and the new Galata Bridge, which straddles the Golden Horn and, connects its ...
Galata bridge during the late Ottoman era Fishermen on the bridge. The New Mosque is in the background. The fifth Galata bridge was built by the Turkish construction company STFA just a few meters away from the previous bridge, between Karaköy and Eminönü, and completed in December 1994. It was designed and supervised by GAMB (Göncer Ayalp ...