The First-Timer · Ece · Istanbul
İstiklal Avenue
The avenue itself is a tourist river, but the side streets off it are the real Beyoğlu. I walk you down it, then off it.
The mile-long pedestrian spine of modern Istanbul, from Taksim to Tünel, with a red tram down the middle.
— Ece, The First-Timer
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