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It was a popular gathering place where Ottoman intellectual rubbed shoulders with Europeans and the local Italian and French Levantines. When 19th-century travelers referred to Constantinople (today Istanbul) as the Paris of the East, they were usually thinking of the Grande Rue de Péra and its cosmopolitan, half-European, half-Asian culture.
Pages in category "Streets in Istanbul" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abdi İpekçi Street; B.
Taksim is a main transportation hub and a popular destination for both tourists and residents of Istanbul. İstiklal Caddesi (Independence Avenue), a long pedestrian shopping street, ends at this square, and a nostalgic tram runs from the square along the avenue, ending near the Tünel (1875) which is the world's second-oldest subway line after ...
60 years later, Istanbul retains its strong attraction for the international hotel chains as the 9th most visited city in the world by the number of international tourist arrivals [3] and the 9th most popular congress destination in the world, [4] [5] hosting, as of September 2015, 106 operating international chain hotels, with further 31 such ...
Kadıköy streets are popular with street art. Kadıköy is a busy shopping district, with a wide variety of atmospheres and architectural styles. The streets are varied, some being narrow alleyways and others, such as Bahariye Caddesi, being pedestrian zones. Turkey's biggest food market is there, starting next to the Osman Ağa Mosque, and ...
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has four main gates situated at the ends of its two major streets which intersect near the southwestern corner of the bazaar. One street connects the Bayezid II Mosque and Beyazıt Square with the Nuruosmaniye Mosque. As everywhere in the East, traders of the same type of good were forcibly concentrated along one ...
Marble street sign at the entrance of the street from the south Soğukçeşme Sokağı with typical Ottoman houses of the late 19th century. Soğukçeşme Sokağı (literally: Street of the Cold Fountain) is a small street with historic houses in the Sultanahmet neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, sandwiched in-between the Hagia Sophia and Topkapı Palace.
Aerial view of the Istanbul metropolitan area at night The Hagia Sophia in Fatih, Istanbul's historic center Nişantaşı shopping district in Istanbul Bosphorus Bridge and skyline of the Istanbul Central Business District. The list of urban centers in Istanbul lists the major clusters of retail, office, government, retail and dense residential ...