pictures of istanbul
Yerebatan sarayi, byzantine cistern
Topkapi Palace
the blue mosque and st. sofia
the bosphorus
Rumeli hisari
Hagia Sophia Museum
Hagia Sophia Museum The world's number one 8.harikalarından St.Sophia, Art History and architecture of the world number 1 is identity construction. In this age and this size works are rarely able to come to our time. The original name of the Hagia Sofia, the Turks, the structure of Hagia Sophia in the wrong way, is known as Saint Sofia. Basilica, not a saint, named Sofia, was dedicated to the Holy Wisdom. The place of an earlier pagan temple, built with the same name describes 3 different basilica was. Been made in the church in the United overthrow the Emperor Constantine, some sources, is the first claim made by him to the Basilica of St. Sophia has come il. Small size wooden roof structure of the 4th yy. In the second half of the United Constantine was the son Konstantinus time. In 404, during a rebellion instead of the first structure, built in the 2nd large extent In 415 the church was opened by a ceremony. 532 in a car race in the Hippodrome as a result of the bloody rebelli...
The location in Sultanahmet was great...walking distance to the markets, the Blue mosque and plenty of restaurants with roof-top dining.
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