Monday, July 9, 2007

French Influence at Beyoglu

French Street, opened in summer 2004, is behind Galatasaray High School.
The number of daily visitors is around 6.500.
Heaters on the streets allow the open areas to be used even on cold days.
Promise is a promise,
I will go back there in winter and photograph one more time to compare.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

ADORABLE! Looks old for something that's opened in 2004. . . interesting. Oya, is there any part that's old? the buildings? steps? Did this area used to be the old "French" neighborhood? -Eden

Anonymous said...

Nice photograph. It looks interesting and a nice place to soak up the passing tourists.

Abraham Lincoln
Brookville Daily Photo

Lilly said...

This is such a lovely picutre.

John Roberts said...

One of your best compositions. So full of life and color! Well done!

Oya said...

Anonymous, as far as I know, the stones of the street were arranged by Parisian architects and the gas lamps are from Paris, they are 100 years old. Yes it was an old French neighborhood at early 1900's...

Anonymous said...

Thanks Oya! Great stuff.

Fabrizio Zanelli said...

It's really an amazing place. Waiting the Winter one I enlarged this one (the photo absolutely deserve to be enlarged) and in fact it come out really wonderful!

Angela said...

Wow! What a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing :o)