Tour including all taxes, museum entrances, transportation
from and to hotels, professinal tourist guides, lunch..
70 EUROS PER PERSON(free airport arrival shuttle) |
*Hagia Sophia
*Blue mosque
*Hippodrome
*Grant covered bazaar
*Lunch
*Topkapi palace
*Suleymaniye mosque |
Hagia Sophia
is a former
patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome
of Byzantine architecture. It was the largest cathedral ever built
in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of
the Medieval Seville Cathedral in 1520.The current building was originally
constructed as a church between A.D. 532 and 537 on the orders
of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, and was in fact the third Church
of the Holy Wisdom to occupy the site (the previous two had both
been destroyed by riots).
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii)
is a historical
mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the capital of
the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is one of several
mosques known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the
walls of its interior. It was built between 1609 and 1616, during
the rule of Ahmed I.
The Hippodrome of Constantinople (Turkish: Sultanahmet Meydani,
At Meydani)
was a horse-racing track that was the sporting and social
centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and the
largest city in Europe. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydani
(Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with only
a few fragments of the original structure surviving. It is sometimes
also called Atmeydani (Horse Square) in Turkish.
The Grand Bazaar (or Covered Bazaar)
in Istanbul is one of the largest
covered markets in the world with more than 58 streets and 6,000
shops, and
has between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. It is well known
for its jewelry, pottery, spice, and carpet shops. Many of the stalls
in the bazaar are grouped by type of goods, with special areas for
leather coats, gold jewelry and the like. The bazaar contains two
bedestens (domed masonry structures built for storage and safe keeping),
the first of which was constructed between 1455 and 1461 by the order
of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. .
The Topkapi Palace (Turkish: Topkapi Sarayi)
is a palace in Istanbul,
Turkey, which was the official and primary residence in the city
of the Ottoman Sultans, from 1465 to
1853. The palace was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments
and is a major tourist attraction today. The name directly translates
as "Cannongate Palace", from the palace being named after
a nearby, now lost gate.
Initial construction started in 1459, ordered by Sultan Mehmed
II, the conqueror of Byzantine Constantinople. The palace is
a complex made up of four main courtyards and many smaller buildings.
The
Süleymaniye Mosque
was built on the order of Sultan Suleiman
I (Suleiman the Magnificent) and was constructed by the great Ottoman
architect Mimar Sinan. The construction work began in 1550 and the
mosque was finished in 1557.
Sinan considered the design to be an architectural counterpoint
to the Byzantine Hagia
Sophia. The Hagia Sophia, converted into
a mosque under Mehmed II, served as a model to many Ottoman mosques
in Istanbul.
70 EUROS PER PERSON ( with free airport
arrival shuttle ) |