Tag: İstiklal Avenue

It may not seem so at a glance to a stranger but, the long and bustling İstiklal Avenue is the true heart of art and culture of Istanbul. The avenue continues to hold this status in spite of the numerous art and cultural centres and venues that have lately sprung up at different locations around […]

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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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