St. Sophia - Blue Mosque - Chora Church - Grand Bazaar -
Dolmabahce Palace
FULL DAY

ST.SOPHIA:This ancient basilica, built by Contantine the Great, in the 4th century and reconstructed by Justinian in the 6th century, is one of the architectural marvels of all time.

SULTANAHMET IMPERIAL MOSQUE: Across from St. Sophia built in the 17th century by the architect Mehmet, this is known as the BLUE MOSQUE because of its magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles.

GRAND COVERED BAZARR: In this labyrinth of streets and passages are more than 4,000 shops with each trade having its own area, the goldsmiths street the carper seller, Turkish arts and crafts, such as handpainted ceramic plates, hand-honed copperwere, brassware and trays, water ewers, onyxware and meerschaum pipers.

CHORA CHURCH: The Kariye Museum (Church of the Holy Savior in Chora) has the best Byzantine mosaics in the region. If you can spare two hours, you must see them. (Note: the museum is closed Wednesday.) Originally built in the 4th century as the 'Church of the Holy Savior Outside the Walls' or 'in the Country' (chora), it was indeed outside the walls built by Constantine the Great. The building you see was built in the late 11th century, with lots of repairs and restructuring in the following centuries. Virtually all of the interior decoration—the famous mosaics and the less renowned but equally striking mural paintings—dates from about 1320.

 DOLMABAHCE PALACE :Dolmabahce Palace, a shore palace built by the brothers Nikagos and Karabet Balyan in 1853 for the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid II, was the most monumental work of the time. Its construction lasted for 11 years costing five million Ottoman gold pieces, the equivalent of 35 tonnes of gold. The Palace was the official residence of several Ottoman Sultans in the 19th and early 20th centuries. With the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Dolmabahce Palace remained empty till Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first president of turkey, took up residence there. Ataturk stayed in the palace between 1 July 1927 and 10 November 1938. His bed-chamber where he died in 10 November 1938 was in the Harem section. Today Dolmabahce is a museum under the auspices of the Department of National Palaces of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.

GENERAL INFORMATION & CONDITIONS
We kindly request our guests to be ready 10 minutes before Departure time,
30% discount for children below the age 7, free for the ages 0-2,