Beşiktaş
Beşiktaş is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey.
Beşiktaş is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey. Its area is 18 km2 and its population is 175,190 (2022). It is located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and on the east by the Bosphorus. Directly across the Bosphorus is the district of Üsküdar.
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Worth seeing in and around Beşiktaş
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Topkapı Palace
The Topkapı Palace or the Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. From the 1460s to the completion of Dolmabahçe Palace in 1853, it served as the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire, and was the main residence of its sultans.
3.8 km · palace museum in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 02Galata Tower
The Galata Tower, officially the Galata Tower Museum, is a medieval Genoese tower in the Galata part of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey. Built as a watchtower at the highest point of the mostly demolished Walls of Galata, the tower is now an exhibition space and museum, and a symbol of Beyoğlu and Istanbul.
3.3 km · historical tower in İstanbul · Wikipedia - 03Bosphorus Bridge
The Bosphorus Bridge, known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge and colloquially as the First Bridge, is the oldest and southernmost of the three suspension bridges spanning the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul, Turkey, thus connecting Europe and Asia. The bridge extends between Ortaköy and Beylerbeyi.
2.3 km · bridge in İstanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 042017 Istanbul nightclub attack
The Istanbul nightclub shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on 1 January 2017 around 01:15 local time, in which a terrorist shot and killed 39 people and wounded 79 others at the Reina nightclub in the Ortaköy neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, where hundreds had been celebrating New Year's Day. Uzbekistan-born Abdulkadir Masharipov was arrested in Istanbul on 17 January 2017.
2.3 km · terrorist mass shooting that occurred at a nightclub in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 1 January 2017 · Wikipedia - 05Dolmabahçe Palace
Dolmabahçe Palace is a 19th-century imperial palace located in Istanbul, Turkey, along the European shore of the Bosporus, which served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1887 and from 1909 to 1922.
600 m · palace in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 06Taksim Square
Taksim Square, situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels. It is considered the heart of modern Istanbul, with the central station of the Istanbul Metro network.
1.9 km · square in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 07Maiden's Tower
The Maiden's Tower, also known as Leander's Tower since the Byzantine period, is a tower on a small islet at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus strait, 200 m from the coast of Üsküdar in Istanbul, Turkey. The tower appeared on the reverse of the Turkish 10 lira banknote from 1966 to 1981.
2.4 km · lighthouse at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus in Turkey · Wikipedia - 08Galata Bridge
The Galata Bridge is a bridge that spans the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey. From the end of the 19th century in particular, the bridge has featured in Turkish literature, theater, poetry and novels.
3.8 km · bridge that spans the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 09Ortaköy Mosque
Ortaköy Mosque, formally the Büyük Mecidiye Camii in Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Turkey, is a mosque situated at the waterside of the Ortaköy pier square, one of the most popular locations on the Bosphorus. It was commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I, and its construction was completed around 1854 or 1856.
1.7 km · mosque in İstanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 10Beşiktaş Stadium
Beşiktaş Stadyumu or Beşiktaş Park is an all-seater, multi-purpose stadium in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is the home ground of Beşiktaş.
1.2 km · association football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia
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Getting to Beşiktaş
- Airports
- Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 30 km · İstanbul (IST), 35 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 187 km
- Eskişehir → Beşiktaş190 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · ₺500–670
- Edremit → Beşiktaş233 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · ₺640–860
- Gaziemir → Beşiktaş342 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · ₺2,400–3,690
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No local-transport research exists yet for Beşiktaş
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Beşiktaş. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFunicular F1 connects its Kabataş station with Taksim on M2 metro.
- Get inThe Tünel funicular (F2) connects Istiklal Caddesi with Karaköy at the sea level on the Golden Horn.
- Get inFerries from Kadıköy across the Bosphorus moor at Karaköy and Kabataş, the two largest ferry piers in Galata.
- Get inThere are also ferries across the Goldern Horn, from Sultanahmet.
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Next door to Beşiktaş
Beşiktaş is 2 km from Üsküdar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Byzantiumancient Greek city, precursor of Constantinople3.8 km
- Üsküdardistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey3 km
- Beyoğludistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey2.9 km
- Şişlidistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey2.5 km
- Galataneighbourhood of Beyoğlu on the North side of the Golden Horn, often referred to as Pera in the past3.6 km
- Karaköycity quarter in Beyoğlu, Istanbul3.5 km