Guidebook for Bahçelievler
Sightseeing
Blue Mosque and St Sophia is located here as well as Topkapi Palace, Byzantine underwater cisterns and Covered Bazaar.
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Sultanahmet Square
No:2 Sultan Ahmet ParkıBlue Mosque and St Sophia is located here as well as Topkapi Palace, Byzantine underwater cisterns and Covered Bazaar.
As well as a royal residence, was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments. It is now a museum and as such a major tourist attraction. It also contains important holy relics.
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Topkapi Palace
As well as a royal residence, was a setting for state occasions and royal entertainments. It is now a museum and as such a major tourist attraction. It also contains important holy relics.
After the Peace of Zsitvatorok and the crushing loss in the 1603-1618 war with Persia, Sultan Ahmet I, decided to build a big mosque in Istanbul to reassert Ottoman power.
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The Blue Mosque
No:10 Atmeydanı Cd.After the Peace of Zsitvatorok and the crushing loss in the 1603-1618 war with Persia, Sultan Ahmet I, decided to build a big mosque in Istanbul to reassert Ottoman power.
Pierre Loti visited Istanbul many times, on 1876 as an officer on a French ship. Loti was deeply affected by Ottoman life style and was reflected in his novels who gave her name to his novel Aziyadé
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Pierre Loti station
Pierre Loti visited Istanbul many times, on 1876 as an officer on a French ship. Loti was deeply affected by Ottoman life style and was reflected in his novels who gave her name to his novel Aziyadé
Dolmabahçe was originally a bay on the Bosphorus which was used for the anchorage of the Ottoman fleet. The area was reclaimed gradually during the 18th century to become an imperial garden
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Dolmabahce Palace
Dolmabahçe CaddesiDolmabahçe was originally a bay on the Bosphorus which was used for the anchorage of the Ottoman fleet. The area was reclaimed gradually during the 18th century to become an imperial garden
Commissioned by Sultan Abdülaziz (1830–1876) as a summer residence Empress Eugénie of France visited on the way to the opening of the Suez Canalin 1869 and had her face slapped by the sultan's mother
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Beylerbeyi Palace Historic Tunnel
Abdullahağa CaddesiCommissioned by Sultan Abdülaziz (1830–1876) as a summer residence Empress Eugénie of France visited on the way to the opening of the Suez Canalin 1869 and had her face slapped by the sultan's mother
Shopping
Grand Bazaar
Beyazıt CaddesiLegendary covered bazaar where everyone has to see it once
Everything Else
Spice bazaar where there are 1001 variety of spice available to purchase or try.
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Mısır Çarşısı
92 Erzak Ambarı Sok.Spice bazaar where there are 1001 variety of spice available to purchase or try.