Tour of Istanbul. "Old Town + Bosphorus"

Programme:

1. Hippodrome Square - the younger brother of the Roman Hippodrome - Istanbul Hippodrome is inferior in size only to him. The Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Egyptian empires are all in the square of one Hippodrome.

2. Blue Mosque – No one except the sultans can build mosques with four minarets. In the capital of the Muslim world, Mecca, you can see a mosque with five minarets. An Ottoman sultan challenges Mecca herself, and a mosque with six minarets appears in Istanbul! This is Istanbul's Blue Mosque.

3. The temple of Hagia Sophia is the main shrine of Orthodox Christians - a church built a thousand years before the temple of San Pietro in Rome. The font in which the first Christian woman of Russia was baptized - Princess Olga, Byzantine mosaics, and potholes in the floor of the temple from the feet of the guardians of the emperors - you will touch all this in the fourth largest church in the world, the temple of St. Sophia.

4.Yerebatan Reservoir

The Yerebatan underground reservoir is a temple with 336 columns, built underground, under the Byzantines was filled with water. Now in the Yerebatan reservoir between the heads of Medusa, carved from marble during the time of the emperors of Rome, huge carp swim.

5. Egyptian Bazaar - Spices, spices and medicinal herbs of the East. Abundance that makes you dizzy. Not the largest, but the most colorful and fun market in Istanbul is the Egyptian Bazaar. Like three hundred years ago, spices and herbs from Egypt and the West are brought here. Topkapi Palace is the treasury of Istanbul. You can also admire the splendor of the port today.

6. Only during this walk you, standing on the deck of a ship sailing along the most beautiful strait of Eurasia, will see the homes of millionaires and island houses, palaces and castles of the sultans. In Turkey, they say: “If your heart is sad, go to the Bosphorus.” Spread the sadness for years to come – go to Istanbul.