This article is about the currently standing Galata Tower built by the Genoese in 1348. For the Megalos Pyrgos (Great Tower) built by the Byzantines at a nearby but different location (closer to the sea) and destroyed during the Sack of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204, see Galata Tower (old).

This article is about the currently standing Galata Tower built by the Genoese in 1348. For the Megalos Pyrgos (Great Tower) built by the Byzantines at a nearby but different location (closer to the sea) and destroyed during the Sack of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204, see Galata Tower (old).

This article is about the currently standing Galata Tower built by the Genoese in 1348. For the Megalos Pyrgos (Great Tower) built by the Byzantines at a nearby but different location (closer to the sea) and destroyed during the Sack of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders in 1204, see Galata Tower (old).