Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in İstanbul, Turkey

The Column of the Goths is a Roman victory column dating to the third or fourth century A.D. It stands in what is now Gülhane Park, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Gülhane Park is a historical urban park in the Eminönü district of Istanbul, Turkey; it is adjacent to and on the grounds of the Topkapı Palace. The south entrance of the park sports one of the larger gates of the palace. It is the oldest and one of the most expansive public parks in Istanbul.

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The Istanbul Archaeology Museums are a group of three archaeological museums located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gülhane Park and Topkapı Palace. These museums house over one million objects from nearly all periods and civilizations in world history.

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Nallı Masjid, also known as İmam Ali Mescidi or Babıali Mescidi, is a late 19th-century small mosque located at Ankara Street northwest of the historic Sublime Porte building, at Cağaloğlu quarter of Fatih district of old Istanbul, Turkey.

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The Istanbul 4th Vakıf Han is a historical large office building located in the Sirkeci neighbourhood of the Eminönü quarter within the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is owned by the Foundations Administration. Currently, it is used as a five star hotel of the World Park Hotel chain named Legacy Ottoman.

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İşbank Museum is a bank museum in Istanbul, Turkey.

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The Tomb of Turhan Sultan is the mausoleum of five Ottoman sultans, located at Fatih in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1663 for Turhan Sultan, first Haseki of Sultan Ibrahim and mother of Sultan Mehmed IV.

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The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops on a total area of 30,700 m2, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. In 2014, it was listed No.1 among the world's most-visited tourist attractions with 91,250,000 annual visitors. The Grand Bazaar at Istanbul is often regarded as one of the first shopping malls of the world.

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Nişancı Mehmet Paşa Mosque is the mosque on Nişanca Street in Karagümrük district in Fatih district of Istanbul. It was built by Mimar Sinan between 1584-1588. Although it is not located in Tezkiretülbünyan and Tezkiretü’l-Abniye, it is shown in Tuhfetü’l-Mi‘mârîn. Evliya Çelebide writes that it belongs to Mimar Sinan. Architect Sinan died in 996 (1588) and the mosque was completed the following year. According to Aptullah Kur’an, the work, which was stated to be completed by Sinan and was completed by one of the journeymen in the sources, belongs to architect Dawud Agha. It is the most powerful possibility that Dâvud Ağa, who continued his style of the mosque, which came across Sinan's recent times. Doğan Kuban's views are also in this direction. On the gate of the mosque, the construction of the mosque started in H.992 / M.1584 and has a prose showing that it was completed in H.997 / M. 1589. III on the entrance door of the mosque. It is known that the design of Murat Tuğur was made by Nişancı Mehmet Pasha. Sultan III. In the inscription, Mustafa Tuğralı explained that the mosque was repaired by the grandson of Mehmet Pasha Şükrullah Efendi. Keskin Dede lies on the northeast side. Only mosques and tombs remained from the imaret designed as a complex in time. There is a preparation in the mosque. In the treasury that is not well -groomed, the son of Eyüp Kadi Mehmed Nutki Efendi is Medfûn.

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Bodrum Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. The church was known under the Greek name of Myrelaion.

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The Bayezid II Hamam is a historic bathhouse (hamam) on Divanyolu Street in Istanbul, Turkey. It was historically part of the külliye of the nearby Bayezid II Mosque and was one of largest hamams in the city.

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The Museum of Turkish Calligraphy Art is a museum located in Beyazıt Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is housed in a former madrasa built in the early 16th century.

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Kalenderhane Mosque is a former Eastern Orthodox church in Istanbul, converted into a mosque by the Ottomans. With high probability the church was originally dedicated to the Theotokos Kyriotissa. The building is sometimes referred to as Kalender Haneh Jamissi and St. Mary Diaconissa. This building represents one among the few extant examples of a Byzantine church with domed Greek cross plan.

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The Burmalı Mosque is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in Şarachane park, Fatih district, Istanbul, Turkey.

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The Aqueduct of Valens was a Roman aqueduct system built in the late 4th century AD, to supply Constantinople – the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Construction of the aqueduct began during the reign of the Roman emperor Constantius II and was completed in 373 by the Emperor Valens. The aqueduct remained in use for many centuries. It was extended and maintained by the Byzantines and the Ottomans.

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The Church of St. Polyeuctus was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus. Intended as an assertion of Juliana's own imperial lineage, it was a lavishly decorated building, and the largest church of the city before the construction of the Hagia Sophia. It introduced the large-scale use of Sassanid Persian decorative elements, and may have inaugurated the new architectural type of domed basilica, perfected in the later Hagia Sophia.

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Kemalpaşa Mosque is a mosque in the Aksaray district of Istanbul.

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The Murat Pasha Mosque is a 15th century Ottoman mosque squeezed in between two busy roads linking Aksaray and Yusufpaşa in the Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey.

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