Eğrikapı

Eğrikapı, or the Crooked Gate, sits within the ancient Theodosian Walls in the Ayvansaray district. You can identify this passage by the way the road leading through it forces traffic into a sharp, asymmetrical slalom, a layout that earned the gate its name. During the Byzantine era, this threshold was known as the Kaligaria Gate, likely a reference to the shoe workshops that once operated in this quarter.