Basilica Cistern
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of hundreds of Byzantine underground cisterns beneath Istanbul, built in the 6th…
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of hundreds of Byzantine underground cisterns beneath Istanbul, built in the 6th…
The defining image of Istanbul’s skyline and the most perfectly proportioned Ottoman mosque ever built — the Sultan…
Ottoman imperial mosque in Istanbul famous for its six minarets and interior walls decorated with thousands of blue…
A 19th-century Ottoman imperial palace on Istanbul's Bosporus shore, serving as the empire's administrative center from 1853 to…
A masterpiece of Byzantine engineering completed in 537, Hagia Sophia's revolutionary pendentive dome created the world's largest interior…
The most structurally innovative building of Late Antiquity and the building that held the world record for the…
The only city in the world that straddles two continents and the only city that has been capital…
In Istanbul, calligraphers continue a centuries-old practice of transforming Arabic script into devotional art. Islamic calligraphy is a…
The Istanbul Archaeological Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri) are a group of three interconnected museums near Gülhane Park and…
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