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The Architect · Yusuf · Istanbul

İstiklal Avenue & Beyoğlu

Beyoğlu · Walk · Free

Ignore the shopfronts and look up. The whole avenue is a 19th-century European city grafted onto Istanbul.

The long pedestrian spine of Beyoğlu — late-Ottoman and Belle Époque façades, arcaded passages, and a vintage red tram.

— Yusuf, The Architect
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