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Topkapı Palace

Critics' Choice
Attractions, Museums

Directly behind Haghia Sophia are the walls shielding Topkapı Palace. Part command centre for a massive military empire, part archetypal Eastern pleasure dome, the palace was...

Bab-ı Hümayün Caddesi
Major venue

Ayasofya Pansiyonları

Hotels

In the 1980s, the Turkish Touring and Automobile Association reconstructed this row of nine clapboard houses dating from the 19th century. They were painted in pastel colours...

Soĸukçeşme Sokak

Dolmabahçe Palace

Critics' Choice
Attractions

Irrefutable evidence of an empire on its last legs, Dolmabahçe Palace was built for Abdül Mecit by Karabet Balyan and his son Nikoĸos. It was completed in 1855, whereupon the...

Dolmabahçe Caddesi
Major venue

Museum of Turkish & Islamic Art

Art, Museums

Overlooking the Hippodrome, the museum occupies the restored 16th-century palace of Ibrahim Paşa. A Greek convert to Islam, Ibrahim was the confidant of Süleyman I and in 1523...

At Meydanı 46
Major venue

Archaeology Museum

Museums

The collection of classical antiquities displayed here is world-class and - rare for Istanbul - well-lit and well-labelled. Within the grounds of Topkapı Palace, the museum was...

Osman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu