Tour Start : Pick up at 08:15 – 08:30 from Hotel
Tour End : At 17:00
Type : Walking Tour
Distance : Sultanahmet Area
Includes : Official local guide, Lunch, Entrance fee, Hotel pick up and drop off
Prices : 1 Person : 125 Euro ( per person )
1 Child ( 0 to 6 ages ) : Free
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Sultanahmet Classic Tour ( Old City Tour )
Tour of “Sultan Ahmet Center”, the heart of the “Old City” from where the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires were ruled.
Hagia Sophia (Aya Sofya) is a UNESCO-listed museum that contains Ottoman and Byzantine works. From golden age of Byzantine, this once Christian church is one of the most extraordinary buildings in the history of architecture. Listen the history and examine the architecture displays with your professional guide.
Then, make a visit to the Blue Mosque with six minarets, was built at the bequest of Sultan Ahmet I and one of the best preserved and most significant examples of Ottoman architecture.
Continue to Istanbul Hippodrome where chariot races were held and also the centre of Byzantium’s life for 1000 years and of Ottoman life for another 400 years and has been the scene of countless political dramas.
The last stop is the Grand Bazaar, one of the most famous bazaar around the world. Discover the bazaar with your guide and make some shopping. It is full with gold, jewellery, leather and spices shops.
Then give a little break for lunch in a local restaurant with typical Turkish cuisine.
Topkapi Palace is the largest and oldest palace in the world to survive to our day and also was the primary residence of the Ottoman sultans for approximately 400years. Topkapi Palace was more than just the private residence of the Sultan and his court. It was centre of the supreme executive and judiciary council, the Divan and the training school. The best artist and craftman’s produced some of the finest work in the whole empire.
Sultan Tombs, Tucked around the back of Hagia Sophia. There are five tombs of sultans; Sultan Selim II, Sultan Murad III, Sultan Mehmed III, Sultan Mustafa I, Sultan Ibrahim I.
Closed:
Monday; Caferaga Medrese
Tuesday; Topkapi Palace
Sunday; Grand Bazaar
( Replaced with Underground Cisterne ( Except Sunday )
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