Tag: beyoğlu

The once named Grand Rue de Pera or Cadde-i Kebir (meaning main road in Ottoman Turkish), today’s İstiklal Avenue in Beyoğlu is currently being reborn from its ashes. With each renovated Art Nouveau building, it is rising higher like a phoenix that is by nature destined to be reborn yet again. One of these historical […]

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Anyone who is visiting Istanbul is sooner or later bound to head to the İstiklal Avenue (İstiklal Caddesi in Turkish). The busy and sometimes overcrowded avenue is the heart of the Beyoğlu district. This is where the commotion, the entertainment, art and culture has been prevailing for more than two hundred years. Some of the […]

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