Bankalar Caddesi
The Bankalar Caddesi ( " Bank Street ", formerly Voyvoda Caddesi or Wojwodestraße ) is one of the most famous streets in the Turkish city of Istanbul. It is like the İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district in Galata.
The road was the financial and commercial center in what was then Constantinople Opel in the Ottoman Empire. Many well known financial services company in the Ottoman period had their headquarters in the Bankalar Caddesi, including the Ottoman Bank and the Ottoman Stock Exchange and Italy's largest insurance company Assicurazioni Generali, which is still there today. Similarly, many other international financial institutions have their offices in the Bankalar Caddesi.
The southern stop of Tünel, the world's second oldest underground railway after the London Underground, located near the eastern end of the Bankalar Caddesi.
The Camondo staircase, a staircase, which was built in the Art Nouveau style of the important Ottoman- Jewish banker Abraham Salomon Camondo, is also located in the Bankalar Caddesi. The staircase leads to the parallel side street where the ruins of the Genoese Palace (Italian: Palazzo del Comune ) lie that was in 1316 by Montano de Marinis, the Podestà of Pera built.