Galata-Beyoglu Trip

Istanbul is always surprising. From Eminonu Square we walk to Karakoy and then climbed to Galata Tower. Galata (also known as Pera) was a colony of the Republic of Genoa between 1273 and 1453. The famous Galata Tower was built by the Genoese in 1348 at the northernmost and highest point of the medieval Genoese citadel. The name comes from the word Galat (meaning Celtic in Greek) as the Celtic tribe of Galatians were thought to have camped here during the Hellenistic period before settling into Galatia in central Anatolia. The inhabitants of Galatia are famous for the Epistle to the Galatians and the Dying Galatian statue. See Galata Tower too.

Then we go to Beyoglu from Istiklal Caddesi, the most active art, entertainment and night life centre of Istanbul, which originated from the medieval Genoese citadel.

We meet a street concert at Galata Tower and Istiklal Caddesi. Then we go to the cafes and pastry shops at Algiers Street which is called French Street. Take pictures of S. Antonio di Padova on Istiklal Avenue.

Antique fine porcelaine plate with drawing: Acropolis

Antique fine porcelaine plate with drawing: ACROPOLIS, PATENT D W, with motto stamp "DIEU ET MON DROIT, HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE", by "C.L.A.Q. BRO"

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Paintings of Fausto Zonaro, Istanbul

Fausto Zonaro (Masi, 18 September 1854 - Sanremo, 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter. He was the first of six children of Mauritius Zonaro, bricklayer, and Elizabeth Bertoncini. He was talented as a child. He studied in the Technical Institute of Lendinara City and then at Verona, at the Academy Cignaroli directed by Napoleon Nani. Then he opened a small school of painting in Venice, but his work also frequently leaded him to go to Naples. Among the most important achievements of this period, particular emphasis has a cycle of about thirty batter with views of Naples and its surroundings for the villa of the Duke Paolo Camerini, now Villa Simes-Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta. The turning point in the career of Fausto Zonaro happens in 1891 when he and Elizabeth Pante, his ex-students in Venice and became his girlfriend, decides to venture into the East, Istanbul, Constantinople then. In Istanbul, little by little can be known in aristocratic circles, received orders increas...

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Galata Tower

Galata Tower , originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com . The Galata Tower , called Christea Turris (Italian, "Tower of Christ") by the Genoese, is a medieval stone tower in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey, just to the north of the Golden Horn. One of the city's most striking landmarks, it is a high, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline and affords a panoramic vista of Old Istanbul and its environs. More >>> Galata borrows its name from Galatians, Celts of Anatolia , stayed here for a while on the way to ancient Ankyra (Ankara), Pessinus (near Ankara) and Tavium near Yozgat today. More >>>

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