• Right across from SALT Galata, located in Karaköy, you can check out what is probably the most eclectic staircase in the city: the Camondo stairs.
  • The Camondo Stairs (Turkish: Kamondo Merdivenleri) are Art Nouveau-style stairs in the Galata district of Istanbul, Turkey.[1][2] The stairs, completed in the 1850s...
  • Camondo Staircase. Climbing Art Nouveau. ... Popular belief has it that the family had the staircase built so that their grandchildren could take a shortcut to school.
  • But the most notable, and perhaps most loved is the Camondo Stairs in Galata, which were built by Abraham Salomon Camondo during the 1870s.
  • The Camondo Stairs are a sprawling staircase with a distinctive curved design that is said to safeguard against accidents and falls.
  • olive groves, factories, schools, and most importantly the famous Camondo Stairs that was built in 1860 and photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
  • Popular folklore has it that the banker family (House of Camondo) built these stairs so that their kids can take a shortcut to school.
  • In return, Camondo also championed a succession of building projects to ease life in the city, including the famous stairs known to this day as the Camondo Steps.
  • These stairs were built to facilitate the transport of Camondo’s children to reach school and to cut down Camondos way to the Banks Avenue , built by them as...
  • Camondo Merdivenleri (Camondo Stairs) in Galata (Karaköy - Istanbul) were a public service project donated by the Camondos, a wealthy Istanbul Jewish family.