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rand Bazaar is the oldest and largest shopping mall of the world and offering excellent shooping with 64 avenues and streets, 2 bedesten, 22 gates and about 3600 stores. It has indoor area of 45.000 meter square, and about 20.000 persons work here. Cevahir Bedesten, being one of...

he Golden Horn is a historical inlet dividing Istanbul into two parts and forming an excelent natural and extremely secure harbor since thousands of years. In the develepments of city the harbor played very important role. The inlet has a horn shape but the designation of...

alatasaray means literally means “Galata Palace”, as the school is located near Galata neighborhood. Galatasaray Lisesi was known in Turkish as the “Galata Sarayi Enderun-u Humayunu” means Galata Palace Imperial School. The school was established in 1481....

efore the city was conquered by Ottomans the land where palace occupy was a part of sea, a bay. Later it was filled by soil and arranged as royal garden and called Dolmabahce. Dolmabahce literally means filled garden. Dolmabahce Palace was constructed by Abdulmecid between 1843...

e doesn’t know exactly when the first city walls was constructed. The first city walls more or less comprising todays Topkapi Palace area. But they were destroyed when Byzantium found itself on the losing side in a civil war against Septimos Severus in 196 A.D. Just a few...

The palace replaced an earlier wooden palace, commissioned by Abdulaziz and completed in 1874. The ceilings and the interior partitions were made of wood, the walls were covered by marble. Abdulaziz didn’t lived to much in his magnificent palace. Five days after he was...

icek Pasaji literally means flower passage; also known as Cite de Pera in French. It is one of the many historic buildings that adorn the Istiklal avenue. On the site of Cicek Pasaji originally there was the Naum Theatre which was burned during the great fire of Pera in 1870....

he Chora museum or The Church of St. Savior in Chora is one of the most beautiful examples of Byzantine with its glorious mosaics and frescoes. According to legend the first churh constructed outside the walls of Constantinople. But from that chuch can’t be seen any trace...

amlica literally means pine grove and the hill is the highest point on both side of Bosphorus. From sea level it is 263 meters high and one of the oldest places to promenade in Istanbul. The hill is covered with pine trees and commands a panoramic view of the entire city. During...

he Beylerbeyi Palace was constructed by Abdul Aziz between 1861-1865 and it was an imperial summer residence and a place to entertain visiting heads of state. Empress Eugenie of France, Shah Nasruddin of Persia are two of its famous visitors.   From the Bosphorus the...