Two fantastic panoramas drawing of Galata
Two fantastic panorama drawing of Galata
"Vue de Pera, Galata et une partie de Constantinople" - 1721 (BnF/Gallica)
Auteur : Dessonville (16..-17..) map maker (Mercure boat) Type : hand made plan / profil vue
General view of Galata and Pera from around Uskudar on the Mercure boat (1721)
View of the ancien Galata castle (Customs when drawn in 1721) and today Karaköy district(actual Vapor port / Iskele)
From left side of the general view, we can see a large round tower (whitch on some maps and text is referred as Galata Tower !) located next to Kemankeş Kara Mustafapaşa mosque 'witch was built by Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha in 1642 on the land of Saint Antonio Church). So in 1686, this large round tower who was probably part of the castle under Yeralti cami (The Underground Mosque has occupied the cellars of the former Galata Castle or Sainte Croix castle, since 1756...see MISN map) and the tower is still shown on Bandury's map in 1729...
This view is interesting for the towers of the city walls and also the big garden in front...may be part of the Saint François church and monastery, shortly after Yeni Valide Cami (destroyed today) was built in 1697 on this land...
Probably St François monastery and open cloister...
Here we can see 3 different Hans, the first one on the left side is Rüstem Pasha Caravanserai, also known as Kurşunluhan, was built upon the
foundations of the ruined Genoese Church of San Michelle,
by the Ottoman Architect Sinan between 1544 and 1550. Further to the right is another Han with 9 small domes which is today called : Fatih Çarşı (han)...Further to the right we can see a Genoese building tower whitch is part of the city wall (we can see the same use of tower/building/houses with a few floors in other Geneose colonies).
We can see the city walls with towers and hight density of big houses...
On the right side of the view is a very large tower with roof who correspond to the end of the first 1303 Genoese city walls corner !
The 1397 extention of the city walls with an high tower in the middle. We can see outside the city walls, Sokollu Mehmed Pacha mosque build by Sinan in 1573/77 (next to Ataturk bridge).
The end and corner of the walls witch are going uphill with the ditch, a street and the village after Galata city...
The end of the View os showing a village, a cimetery and in the extreme right side a turbe (Islamic tomb). PL
"Vue de Pera, Galata et une partie de Constantinople" - 1721 (BnF/Gallica)
Auteur : Dessonville (16..-17..) map maker (Mercure boat) Type : hand made plan / profil vue
View of Galata slope and Karaköy seaside, with houses on stilts between the city walls and the sea... On the top of the hill is the "Pera tower" as written on the legend...in 1721
Galata, Pera and Karakoy (today) with on the top of the hill the Embassy building of the Nederland (F)...we can see houses on stilts on the sea side and also some shelters probably for fishing boat...
View of Pera and actual Tophane district with uphill the French palace (Embassy) (G) and the Galata school of administration (nowaday the Galatasaray school). On the right side down by the sea, Kiliç Ali Pacha complex built by architect Mimar Sinan in 1578-87 and Tophane Imperial armory built in the reign of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II(1451–1481).
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The second Vue of Galata :
Name of the View : " Veüe de la
ville et du port de Constantinople :
Avec le Grand Serail, partie de Galata, passage du Bosphore de Trace,
entrée du canal de la Mer Noire, et de Scutari en Asie " view of Constantinople, the port, the Ottoman palace, Galata, the Bosphorus strait, and the Dardanelles strait, and Uskudar / Benjamin de Combes (1649?-1710) Cartographer and officer, 1686 ( BnF / Gallica)
From left side of the general view, we can see a large round tower (whitch on some maps and text is referred as Galata Tower !) located next to Kemankeş Kara Mustafapaşa mosque 'witch was built by Kemankeş Mustafa Pasha in 1642 on the land of Saint Antonio Church). So in 1686, this large round tower who was probably part of the castle under Yeralti cami (The Underground Mosque has occupied the cellars of the former Galata Castle or Sainte Croix castle, since 1756...see MISN map) and the tower is still shown on Bandury's map in 1729...
This view is interesting for the towers of the city walls and also the big garden in front...may be part of the Saint François church and monastery, shortly after Yeni Valide Cami (destroyed today) was built in 1697 on this land...