Taksim Square is an old town and considered as the heart of modern Istanbul. This district is known for its famous restaurants, shops and hotel for tourist’s major shopping outlet and leisure. Taksim means distribution, it is the site where main water lines were collected and branch off to the other side of the city. Ending of this square is the Independence Avenue known as Istiklal Caddesi which is the longest pedestrian shopping in the street.

Here you will see the longest world’s second old subway line known as the Great Tunel. Taksim is the point of the main transportation and famed for tourist destinations because it is surrounded by a number of travel agencies, hotels such as Intercontinental Hotel, Marmara Hotel, and Ritz-Carlton. Restaurants, pubs and international food chains are also in the locale of Taksim Square such as Pizza Hut, Mc Donald and Burger King.