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İstanbul

Turkey

Travel tips for İstanbul (6)

Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmed Mosque), Istanbul
Built between 1609 and 1616, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque is famous for its six minarets, its cascading domes and the more than 20,000 blue İzni…
Bosphorus ferry cruise, Istanbul
The strait dividing Europe from Asia, lined with palaces, Ottoman wooden mansions (yalı) and fortresses.
Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
One of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world, begun in 1461.
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Built as a cathedral by the Byzantine emperor Justinian in 537, later a mosque, then a museum, and again a mosque since 2020, with a vast d…
Topkapı Palace, Istanbul
The palace of the Ottoman sultans for nearly 400 years, on a point above the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn, with courtyards, pavilions tile…