Galata Tower Istanbul – Medieval Genoese Tower 1348, High Detail | 3D Print STL

The stone tower that has watched over the Golden Horn since 1348. The Genoese colony of Galata built it as the Christea Turris, the Tower of Christ, the high point of the walls around their trading quarter across the water from Constantinople. Under the Ottomans it served as a prison, an observatory and, for centuries, a fire-watch tower over the wooden city. According to the 17th-century traveller Evliya Çelebi, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi strapped on wings and glided from its top across the Bosphor…

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