Taksim to Galata Walking Tour: Excursion into History, Architecture, and Local Life

Experience the Taksim to Galata Walking Tour and delve into the history, architecture, and local life of Istanbul. Discover hidden gems, learn about the neighborhood’s cosmopolitan past, and explore the non-tourist areas with a knowledgeable guide.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Taksim Square - Taksim square has a little bit of everything and is worth a trip to witness people and their interactions.
What's Included
  • English-speaking guide
  • Small group experience
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

An interesting and entertaining afternoon walk down the Istiklal Street. Get insider look at the life beyond the main street, interesting historical highlights while zigzags towards Galata Tower.

Well-paced and engaging, brimming with facts on everything from food, language, architecture, lifestyle, and eating and drinking customs, not to mention a span of history leaping between ancient times to the modern day!

A great way to get to know the modern city’s non-tourist areas along side streets in the Taksim area as well as providing historical context.

  • Learn about how cosmopolitan the neighborhood once was.

  • Explore the out of the beaten path of Beyoğlu Pera

  • Learn about where the local people hang out, eat and drink.

Location
Starbucks
Tak-ı Zafer Caddesi
Meet your guide in front (outside) of STARBUCKS located under “The Marmara Taksim Hotel”. It is about a 2-minute walk from the Taksim metro station. Your guide will wear a tour guide badge and will be easy to spot.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Elizabeth_k
Jun 2, 2024
Lovely and knowledgeable guide - Lovely walk around the new city, saw some very interesting and historical places. Elif was very knowledgeable and gave great recommendations!
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507anamarial
May 26, 2024
Excelent I will recomended - My guide was Excelent, he explain many local costumes, coffe, food, secrets etc, zi enjoyed a lot and learnt also. His name is Erol Utgul
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Soulsing
May 14, 2024
Worthwhile short tour to see how locals go about their daily lives - Glad I did this short tour as it gave a greater insight into life in Istanbul. What was of interest in particular was to see locals going about their daily lives. It gave me a different perspective than only seeing tourist destinations. The tunnel metro was also of interest, not speaking or reading Turkish I had walked past the bottom entry several times without understanding what it was. Erol the guide was good also and spoke good English and easy to understand. This tour is short but worthwhile and I would recommend it if you have seen all the historical sites
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Jom1883
May 1, 2024
Walking tour in Pera (the other side) - This was amazing! So informative and all the hidden passages I would never have found. Erol is a very knowledgeable and lovely guide - I enjoyed this so much. If you are coming to Istanbul you must do this!
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I3352redanielaw
Dec 8, 2023
Very Good - My boyfriend and i had a really nice solo tour with Erol. We startet at Taskim and ended at Galata Tower. He showed as typical and unknown places were we can have drinks/food. After our tour we instantly tried shalep and köfte😇 it was really good and we are thankful for those recommendations
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Hlh822
Nov 3, 2023
Time and money well spend - Erol Utgun was an excellent tour guide. He made an effort and took his time to talk us fascinating history and food culture. He took us through passages and to little shops we would otherwise never have known about.
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Hlh822
Nov 3, 2023
Time and money well spent - Erol Utgun was an excellent tour guide. He really made an effort and took his time to tell us fascinating history and Turkish food culture and show us little shops and passages we would otherwise never have seen. Highly recommend.
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Nigel_s
Oct 4, 2023
Erol the excellent - Excellent tour with a great guy, Erol. Informative and interesting. Many great insider tips. Highly recommended.
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Z678xtcherylb
Sep 28, 2023
The gist was perfect tour, perfect amount of time, wonderful conversation and she is a great communicator and very relax - Our tour guide, i think her name is Efol, beautiful reddish hair and terrific personality… well she made the tour a complete pleasure despite the bit of rain today. It was just my husband and i and she was so fun of not only history but interesting trivia in many areas. She was one of the most pleasant guides we had had in all our travels. The passages and their history were amazing. She is kind and very courteous. He helped us get a taxi home because it was dark. She is highly recommended by both of us!!! Thank you so much Efol
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