Sirkeci

Sirkeci (pronounced

The neighborhood borders to the north the mouth of the Golden Horn, to the west the neighborhood of Bahçekapı, to the east the Topkapı Palace area, and to the south the Cağaloğlu neighborhood. It hosts the Sirkeci railway station, the easternmost terminus of the Orient Express, a historic long-distance passenger train service in Europe that operated between Paris and Istanbul in the period between 1883 and 2009.^[2]

The neighborhood consists mostly of

-oriented buildings. A combination of small shops, hans (larger workshops) and offices intermingle with boutique hotels, traditional Turkish restaurants, Turkish and foreign-language bookstores, and tourist offices.

Accommodation

In recent years, Sirkeci has become one of the major hotel neighborhoods in the

quarter, Sirkeci hosts many hotels with reasonable pricing options and availability.

Transportation

Famous for its

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Sirkeci is a station on the Marmaray railway line running between Gebze and Halkalı, and connecting the European and Asian sides of Istanbul via a tunnel under the Bosphorus. ^[5]

Grand Post Office in Sirkeci was designed by Vedat Tek in the Turkish neoclassical style

of the early 20th century.

• Sirkeci Marmaray station tiles
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See also

• Eminönü
• Sirkeci Terminal
• Marmaray
• Istanbul Metro
• Grand Post Office
• Istanbul Postal Museum

Sources

• Janin, Raymond (1964). Constantinople Byzantine (in French) (2 ed.). Paris: Institut Français d'Etudes Byzantines.

• ISBN 978-3-8030-1022-3
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References

41°00′53″N 28°58′32″E / 41.01472°N 28.97556°E / 41.01472; 28.97556