Galata Tower
The Galata Tower, officially the Galata Tower Museum, is a medieval Genoese tower in the Galata part of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey. Built as a watchtower at the highest point of the mostly demolished Walls of Galata, the tower is now an exhibition space and museum, and a symbol of Beyoğlu and Istanbul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—8:30 PM
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: historical tower in İstanbul
- Also known as: “Christea Turris” and “Galata Kulesi”
- Address: Bereketzade Mahallesi, İstanbul, 34420
- Roof shape: pyramidal
- Wheelchair access: no
Photo: Robot8A, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Golden Horn and The Jewish Museum of Turkey.
Golden Horn
Photo: VikiPicture, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Golden Horn is the district of Istanbul surrounding the banks of the body of water of the same name, which is a bay of the Bosphorus along its western, European coast.
The Jewish Museum of Turkey
Museum
Photo: Leandrostr, Public domain.
The Jewish Museum of Turkey is a Jewish museum and cultural center established by the Quincentennial Foundation to inform the society of the traditions and history of Turkish Jewry. The Jewish Museum of Turkey is situated 180 metres northwest of Galata Tower.
Neve Shalom Synagogue
Synagogue
The Neve Shalom Synagogue is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Büyük Hendek Caddesi 61, in the Karaköy quarter of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, in the Istanbul Province of Turkey. Neve Shalom Synagogue is situated 190 metres northwest of Galata Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bereketzade and Galata.
Galata
Quarter
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
Galata is the former name of the Karaköy neighbourhood in Istanbul, which is located at the northern shore of the Golden Horn. The district is connected to the historic Fatih district by several bridges that cross the Golden Horn, most notably the Galata Bridge.
Karaköy
Quarter
Karaköy, the modern name for the old Galata, is a commercial quarter in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, located at the northern part of the Golden Horn mouth on the European side of Bosphorus.
Galata Tower
- Categories: tower, building, museum, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Galata, Istanbul, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
41.02564° or 41° 1′ 32″ northLongitude
28.97421° or 28° 58′ 27″ eastElevation
54 metres (177 feet)Inception
1348Levels
9Height
63 metres (205 feet)Open location code
8GHC2XGF+7MOpenStreetMap ID
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wheelchair=no
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yakut—“Galata Tower” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Galata-toring”
- Albanian: “Kulla e Gallatës”
- Arabic: “برج غالاتا”
- Arabic: “برج غالاطا”
- Arabic: “برج غلطة”
- Armenian: “Գալաթայի աշտարակ”
- Azerbaijani: “Qalata qülləsi”
- Bashkir: “Ғалата башняһы”
- Bashkir: “Истанбулдағы Ғалата башняһы, Истанбулдың Ғалата башняһы-музейы”
- Basque: “Galata dorrea”
- Belarusian: “Галацкая вежа”
- Bosnian: “Kula Galata”
- Bulgarian: “Галата”
- Catalan: “torre de Gàlata”
- Catalan: “Torre de Gàlata”
- Central Kurdish: “تاوەری گالاتا”
- Chinese: “加拉塔石塔”
- Chinese: “加拉太塔”
- Chinese: “加拉达塔”
- Chinese: “加拉达石塔”
- Chinese: “加拉達塔”
- Croatian: “Toranj Galata”
- Czech: “Galatská věž”
- Dimli (individual language): “Qulay Galata”
- Dutch: “Galatatoren”
- Esperanto: “Galata-turo”
- Estonian: “Galata torn”
- Finnish: “Galatan torni”
- French: “tour de Galata”
- French: “Tour de Galata”
- Georgian: “გალათას კოშკი”
- Georgian: “გალატას კოშკი”
- German: “Galataturm”
- Greek: “Πύργος Γαλατά”
- Greek: “Πύργος του Γαλατά”
- Hebrew: “מגדל גלאטה”
- Hindi: “गलाता टवर”
- Hungarian: “Galata Kulesi”
- Hungarian: “Galata-torony”
- Indonesian: “Menara Galata”
- Italian: “Torre di Galata”
- Japanese: “ガラタ塔”
- Kazakh: “Галата мұнарасы”
- Korean: “갈라타 타워”
- Korean: “갈라타 탑”
- Ladino: “La Kula de Galata”
- Lithuanian: “Galata bokštas”
- Macedonian: “Кула Галата”
- Malay: “Galata”
- Malay: “Menara Galata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galatatårnet”
- Norwegian: “Galatatårnet”
- Ossetian: “Галатайы мæсыг”
- Persian: “برج گالاتا”
- Polish: “Galata Kulesi”
- Polish: “Wieża Galata”
- Polish: “Wieża Galaty”
- Portuguese: “Torre de Gálata”
- Romanian: “Turnul Galata”
- Russian: “Галатская башня”
- Scots: “Galata Touer”
- Serbian: “Кула Галата”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kula Galata”
- Slovak: “Galata Kulesi”
- Slovenian: “Galatski stolp”
- South Azerbaijani: “قالاتا بورجو”
- Spanish: “Torre de Galata”
- Spanish: “Torre de Gálata”
- Tatar: “Галата манарасы”
- Turkish: “Galata Kulesi”
- Ukrainian: “Галатська башта”
- Urdu: “برج غلطہ”
- Urdu: “برج گالاتا”
- Uzbek: “Galata qal’asi”
- Venetian: “Tore de Galata”
- Western Panjabi: “گلاٹا ٹاور”
- Yakut: “Галата башнята”
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