Cezayir Street, Istanbul
Better known as Fransız Sokağı or La Rue Française, i.e.
Better known as Fransız Sokağı or La Rue Française, i.e. 'French Street', is an alley of statues and geraniums hanging from windows, featuring France-themed restaurants, cafes, and pubs housed in renovated and brightly-painted neo-classical buildings. Upon its inauguration in its present form in 2005, there was a brief debate on how political correct it is to rename the street from Cezayir (Algeria) to Fransız, who fought a bitter war against Algerian independence in 1960s, which led the city council to abandon the idea of officially renaming the street.
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About Cezayir Street
Sinanpaşa Mh., Cezayir Cd, 34010 Beşiktaş/Istanbul Province, Turkey
Cezayir Street and Nearby Sights on Map
Akaretler Street
Akaretler Caddesi, or officially Süleyman Seba Caddesi features upscale garment boutiques, restaurants, and sidewalk cafes housed in recently renovated late Ottoman era rowhouses initially built for the state elite, given their proximity to Dolmabahçe Palace, imperial headquarters then
Dolmabahce Palace
It's the Ottoman Palace centered close to Taksim at the Dolmabahçe shore
Maçka Park
This is a park occupying two sides of a valley of this hilly city, with an avenue in between
Maiden's Tower
Maiden's Tower, also called Leander's Tower, is built on a small islet surrounded by waters of Bosphorus off the Üsküdar coast where you can have breakfast before noon (a standard breakfast costs 35 TL pp), have drinks during day or dine (mid-expensive) inside the tower itself
Ortaköy
A neighbourhood on the bank of Bosphorus with the Ortaköy Mosque-the baroque mosque under the Bosphorus Bridge, combination of which are one of the most iconic images of Istanbul
Istanbul Military Museum
Among the exhibition of this museum are five thousand pieces from the Ottoman era through the WWII, with the most prominent piece possibly being the huge chain that the Byzantines stretched across the mouth of the Golden Horn to keep out the Sultan's navy in 1453 during the siege of Constantinople
French Institute
They have good art exhibits for free and sometimes have French films in the cinema
Hagia Triada Orthodox Church
Finding a quite large and still operating church on the edge of the main square of the largest city of a predominantly Muslim country may not be expected by everyone, but this is exactly the definition of the quite elaborate Hagia Triada
Galata Convent of Whirling Dervishes
A dancing hall of the mystical Mevlevi order, shut down in 1925 along with all other 'reactionary' movements in Turkey
Atatürk Museum
The historical 3-storey house, easily recognizable among concrete apartment buildings with its pink exterior, which the founder of Turkish Republic, Kemal Atatürk rented while staying in Istanbul before setting sail to Samsun on Black Sea coast to start the Turkish War of Independence