
Cylinder
By: pelly*made
Tags: architecture, city, culture, Istanbul, outdoors, photography, time, travel
Aperture: | f/3.9 |
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Focal Length: | 9.7mm |
ISO: | 800 |
Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
Camera: | DMC-TZ7 |
Galata tower in Constantinople
wiki: the Galata Tower is a medieval stone tower in the Galata/Karaköy quarter of Istanbul, Turkey. One of the city’s most striking landmarks, it is a high, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline and offers a panoramic vista of old Constantinople and its environs
The tower was built as Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople. The Galata Tower was the tallest building in Istanbul at 219½ feet (66.9 m) when it was built
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