Pocket Rough Guide Istanbul by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241246955
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 2015-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

< Back to Galata and the waterfront districts

Beyoğlu and Taksim

Sights

Shops

Cafés

Restaurants

Bars

Clubs & Venues

Draped across the hilltop above Galata is Beyoğlu, the frenetic entertainment quarter of the metropolis. Heart of the action is one-and-a-half-kilometre-long İstiklal Caddesi (Independence Street), running from the upper Tünel station north to bland but impressively vast Taksim Square. From the seventeenth century onwards this became the European quarter of the city, home to the palatial residences of foreign merchants, ambassadors and members of the city’s Greek and Armenian communities. Typically late nineteenth-century Neoclassical-, Art Nouveau- and Secessionist-style apartment blocks line streets punctuated by grand consular buildings, churches and period arcades. Beneath their grand facades, İstanbulites and foreign visitors shop, visit a gallery, take in a film, head up to a rooftop bar to watch the sun sink over the old city across the water and while away the night at a trendy club or live music venue.

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