Galata Tower

Galata Kulesi Müzesi

A €30 360-degree lookout with long sunset queues

⚠ Foreigners €30

Hours

Daily 08:30–23:00, last entry 22:00 (official site)

Tickets

Foreign visitors €30 (official site). Buy on site or through online resellers (some include an audio guide)

Address

A 10-minute climb from the north end of the Galata Bridge; cafés ring the little square around it

A 14th-century Genoese stone tower, now a state-run museum and lookout. Lift and stairs take you to a narrow balcony that rings the top, and one lap gives you the Old City mosques across the Golden Horn, the Bosphorus and the Asian shore. The catch is the €30 price and the queue, so visitors are split between people who go up and people who photograph it from below and watch from a nearby rooftop café. If you do go up, enter an hour before sunset and stay for dusk and the lights to get your money's worth.