Galata Tower

Galata Kulesi, or the Galata Tower, has watched over this hill since 1348, when the Genoese built it as part of the fortified settlement at Galata. Its medieval name, Christea Turris, points back to that Latin world of merchants, sailors, and stone walls facing the Golden Horn. Over the centuries, the tower took on new jobs in the city: a lookout post, a fire watch point, and later one of Istanbul’s most familiar landmarks. The structure has survived earthquakes, fires, and repeated repairs, which is part of why its stone profile feels so tied to the city’s long memory. Today it remains one of the oldest surviving towers here, and its silhouette has become a shorthand for old Istanbul itself. Just below it, the lanes around Bereketzade still carry the layered history of the Genoese quarter, where a 14th-century tower still anchors a very modern city.

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