02 · From Russia with Love · 1963 · Connery
PinpointBasilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı)
Istanbul, TürkiyeTicketed / opening hours
Kerim Bey rows Bond through a flooded Byzantine reservoir to a periscope that looks straight up into the Soviet consulate.
Stand here for the shotThe walkway at the far end, with lit columns reflected in the water.
The rowing boat is pure fiction: today visitors walk on raised platforms among the 336 columns.
- Address
- Yerebatan Caddesi 1/3, Fatih
- Coordinates
- 41.00840° N 28.97790° E
- Pin
- Pinpoint: the exact building or spot is identified.
- Access
- Ticketed / opening hours
- Film
- From Russia with Love (1963), dir. Terence Young
- Found by
- HQ
- Walk
- Stop on Bond's Istanbul (10 stops)
Within 120 km
Make a day of it
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