Istanbul Daily City Tour

Spice Bazaar: This covered market is an attractive L-shaped building to the southwest of the Yeni Cami. Its English name survives from the time when the market specialized in the sale of spices and herbs, as well as medicinal plants and drugs.

Boat Cruise on Bosphorus: The Bosphorus - the waterway between two continents - is beautiful at any time, day or night in any season. On the way to the Black Sea, you can see the finest and richest examples of the Ottoman houses and palaces on the shores.

Rumeli Fortress: In 1452, Mehmet II prepared to besiege Constantinople by constructing a fortress at Rumeli Hisari. It took less than four months to build, thanks to 3000 laborers and master masons assigned to the task. Its crenellated walls and round towers are popular with photgraphers and what you see from the top of the walls is one of the nicest view of the Bosphorus.

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Dolmabahce Palace: This area was originally the bay where the navy anchored in the early periods when the Ottomans conquered Istanbul. Between 1611-1614, this bay had been filled in and a timber building with a large garden called "the Besiktas Palace" had been built with the order of Sultan Ahmet I. The land of the Besiktas Palace, which had become completely useless due to a fire, was chosen as the site of the new palace by Sultan Abdulmecit I, since it was by the sea side and close to the city center.

Bosphorus Bridge: Unique chance to step from one continent (Europe) to another (Asia) within few minutes. The Ataturk Bridge carries 200.000 vehicles and 600.000 people a day. It is the 4th longest suspension bridges in the Europe and 7th in the world.

Camlica Hill: Camlica Hill is one of the highest point of the Bosphorus and Istanbul. The Camlica Hill has a wonderful panorama including the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus, Historical Peninsula and islands.

Blue Mosque: Its magnificent series of domes and semi-domes, its six slender minarets sprouting from the corners of the mosque, its spacious courtyard, and its grandiose yet elegant proportions, make the Blue Mosque one of the architectural marvels of the world.

Hippodrome and Obelisks: The ancient Hippodrome, the scene of chariot races and the center of Byzantine civil life, stood in the open space in front of the Blue Mosque.

Haghia Sophia Museum: Haghia Sophia was built at the command of Emperor Justinian in the years 532 to 537. The courtyard of Haghia Sophia harbors a number of minor but fascinating Ottoman structures.

Grand Bazaar: The Grand Bazaar was built at the command of Fatih Mehmet shortly after the Conquest. It contains 4399 shops, 2195 workshops, 497 stalls and 18 fountains.

Topkapi Palace: As the administrative center, for nearly 400 years, for the Ottoman Empire, which was one of the greatest empires of the world, Topkapi Palace is certainly the most important historical site to be visited in Istanbul. In 1461, less than ten years after the Conquest, Fatih Mehmet ordered the construction of Topkapi Sarayi a palace that would be known as Dar-üs Saadet, the "House of Felicity". Topkapi Sarayi remained the seat of the Ottoman Sultans until 1868, when Abdülmecit I moved to the European-style Dolmabahce Palace farther up the Bosphorus.

Süleymaniye Mosque: Suleymaniye is without question one of the greatest works of its architect, Sinan. Begun in 1550, the mosque was completed in 1557, with two more years required in order to finish the entire complex.

Chora Museum: The mosaics and frescoes in St. Savior are by far the most important works of Byzantine pictorial art known today, in terms of both their beauty and their number. It is fascinating to realize that they are coeval with the frescoes of Giotto in Italy. And while different in certain particulars, they nonetheless appear to radiate the same sense of living, breathing reality so characteristic of the Early Renaissance.

The Eyup Quarter: Eyup quarter and mosques take their name from Eyüp Ensari, the companion and standard-bearer of the Prophet Mohammed killed during the first siege of Constantinople.

Ancient City Walls: The land walls, for the most part, date from the reign of Emperor Theodosius II (408-450). The initial phase of construction, which produced one long high wall punctuated at regular intervals by some hundred bastions of defense towers, was completed in 413 under the supervision of Anthemius Perfect of the Eastern Empire.

Depart from you hotel in the morning for a Cruise on Marmara Sea. Travel on to
Buyuk Ada Island: The Island is in the Sea of Marmara, twenty kilometers from the historic peninsula. This popular summer resort with its sandy beaches and pinewood scenery, was once the pleasure island of the Byzantine Princes'.

Enjoy a ride on a Horse Drawn Carriage and then sit back and relax for a while during the break for lunch. Afer lunch, return to Istanbul by cruise. Lunch is included in the tour as well as transfer back to your hotel.