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Beyoğlu GALATA, TOPHANE & KARAKÖY | İSTIKLAL & AROUND | ÇUKURCUMA & CIHANGIR

Neighbourhood Top Five

15th-century semahane (whirling-dervish hall). 3 Museum of Innocence (p131) Admiring Orhan Pamuk’s ambitious and thought-provoking concep tual art project. 4 Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamamı (p146) Indulging in a tradi tional hamam treat

ment in this magnificently restored 16th-century Turk ish bath. 5 Balık Pazarı (p128) Sampling the sights, smells and flavours in this historic market.

1 ARTER (p129) Visiting cultural institutions such as this art gallery to see why İstanbul is now acknowl edged as having one of the world’s most exciting visual-art scenes. 2 Galata Mevlevi Museum (p143) Seeing dervishes whirl in a

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For more detail of this area see Map p244 and p248 A