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The Galata Tower (Galata Kulesi in Turkish) — called Christea Turris (the Tower of Christ in Latin) by the Genoese — is a medieval stone tower in the Galata/Karaköy quarter of Istanbul Turkey just to the north of the Golden Horn’s junction with the Bosphorus. 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 Istanbul’s historic peninsula and its environs.

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location
Turkey, Istanbul

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