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GALATA TOWER ISTANBUL Lantern, suicide tower, jailThis story by igot has 9 pages.

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Caption: ISTANBUL Lantern, suicide tower, jail GALATA TOWER

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Caption: HISTORY Galata Tower with its previous conical roof, depicted in a painting by Ivan Aivazovsky in 1846. The previous conical roof was destroyed by a storm in 1875. The current conical roof was built during restoration works between 1965 and 1967.

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Caption: There is a restaurant and cafe on its upper floors which command a magnificent view of Istanbul and the Bosphorus. Anybody can watch the city on tower's upper floor in during daytime.

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Caption: After the Sultan Mehmed Han conquered the city, Genoeses delivered the key of tower to Ottomans in 1453.

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Caption: GALATA TOWER, Beyoglu, Istanbul, TURKEY #places, #istanbul, #galata, #tower, #touristic, #turkey

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