Fatih, İstanbul, Türkiye
Istanbul's Imperial Heart
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Few places on earth carry the weight of history the way this small peninsula in Istanbul does. Bounded by the Bosphorus, the Golden Horn, and the Sea of Marmara, the district of Sultanahmet was once the beating heart of not one but two of the greatest empires the world has ever known — the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. To walk its streets is to move through more than fifteen centuries of continuous human ambition, faith, and power.
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Stops on this tour
- Topkapi Palace Museum
- Gülhane Park
- Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque
- Arasta Bazaar
- Great Palace Mosaics Museum
- Little Hagia Sophia Mosque
- The Blue Mosque
- Sultanahmet Square
- Basilica Cistern
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