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Istanbul Mosques, Rum Mehmet Pasa Mosque, Uskudar
Rum (Greek) Mehmet Pasa Camii located in Semsi Pasa, near Uskudar town center is the first Ottoman mosque built on the Asian sidean Ottoman. The mosque built in 1471 by Rum Mehmet Pasa, who was of Greek origin, combines Byzantine and Ottoman...
Istanbul Museum of Cartoon & Humour
Karikatur Muzesi located in Gazanferaga Kulliyesi (complex of a mosque) in Fatih today first opened in Tepebasi, Taksim in 1975 and served until the military coup in 1980. The museum then was moved to Gazanferaga Kulliyesi in 1989.
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Galata Bridge, Connecting The Old and New City
Galata Bridge between Eminönü and Karaköy over the Golden Horn connecting the old İstanbul to Pera, Galata, Taksim, Beyoğlu area. During the Ottoman period, the bridge also had a symbolic link between the traditional and imperial city,...
Istanbul Link Tours 2 – Seven Wonders of Istanbul
Today’s Istanbul link tour is focused on the 7+ wonders of Istanbul. Enjoy your tour!
Aya Sofya, Hagia Sophia is no doubt at the top of the list of the wonders of Istanbul. If you haven’t been there yet, you can first visit Wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia for...
Visiting the sultan’s palace in Istanbul
One of the most worn-out cliches about Istanbul is that the city straddles two continents. Most tourists stay in only one of them for the entire duration of their trip and it’s usually the European part.
Only a few venture to the Asian...
From Santralİstanbul to the Rahmi M. Koç Industrial Museum
According to one set of official statistics, İstanbul hosted nearly 7.5 million tourists in 2010, the year the city was a European Capital of Culture.
Although the figures were slightly down from 2009 because of the global economic slump, the...
Cinili Kosk, Tiled Kiosk
The Tiled Kiosk is a pavilion set within the outer walls of Topkapı Palace and dates from 1473. It was built by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II as a pleasure palace or kiosk. It is located in the most outer parts of the palace, next to Gülhane...
Hippodrome, At Meydani, Sultan Ahmet
The Hippodrome, At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, the most important tourist attraction in Istanbul today was the social and sporting center of Constantinople with a horse-racing track as a common pastime feature of the Hellenistic and...
Galata Tower
The Galata Tower is found on a hilltop overlooking the Golden Horn, the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara. It was built by the Genoese in 1348 as the chief tower in the city walls of Galata. After suffering heavy damage in a great earthquake...
Neve Salom Synagogue
The synagogue is on the Buyuk Hendek Street in the Kuledibi district of Beyoglu square. The Neve Salom (“Peace Oasis”) Synagogue was built by renovating the gymnasium was converted to a synagogue in 1938, but it couldn’t be...