🍽️(Breakfast lunch included)
🏨Pick up at 08:00am from your hotel for the day tour of old Istanbul city.Visit to ST. SOPHIA
📍This ancient basilica, built by Constantine the Great in the 4th century and reconstructed
📍by Justinian in the 6th century, is one of the architectural marvels of all time. TOPKAPI
🏰PALACE The great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing
📍an exquisite collection of cyrstal, silver, and Chinese porcelain, robes worn by the sultans
📍and their families, the famous jewels of the Imperial Treasury, miniatures, the Holy Mantle;
📍enshrining relics of the Prophet Mohammed. SULTANAHMET IMPERIAL MOSQUE Across from
📍St. Sophia built in the 16th century by the architect Mehmet, is known as the BLUE MOSQUE
📍because of its magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles. HIPPODROME Ancient
📍Hippodrome, the scene of chariot races, with the three monuments; the Obelisk of
📍Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine. Lunch break at
📍13:00pm after the lunch and GRAND COVERED BAZAAR In this labyrinth of streets and
📍passages are more then 4,000 shops with each trade having its own area: the goldsmiths'
📍street, the carpet sellers, Turkish arts and crafts, such as handpainted ceramic plates, handhoned copperware, brassware and trays, water ewers, onyx-ware and meerschaum pipes.
🏨After the tour, transfer back to your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
