Sultanahmet Hippodrome (Horse Square)

The historical area, which is a real hippodrome where horse races took place during the Byzantine period, is now known as the Horse Square in Sultanahmet Square.

Historical Places at Sultanahmet Square

The Obelisk, the Serpentine Column and the German Fountain over which Egyptian hieroglyphics are located in this area. Ibrahim Pasha Palace, which you can visit today as a Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, is also at this square.

If you are planning to join the Istanbul Ottoman and Byzantine Historical Sites Tour, you can join our Full-Day Istanbul Ottoman and Byzantine Historical Sites Tour with the opportunity free pick-up and drop-off from your hotel with comfortable, air-conditioned minibuses.

Hagia Sophia Museum

8th Wonders of the World Hagia Sophia Museum

Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which is based to the Byzantine Constantin days. After the conquest of Istanbul, the place where the first Friday prayer was performed was Hagia Sophia.

Topkapi Palace

The Ottoman Empire is one of the empires of the world that has reached the largest borders and has maintained its dominance for centuries. Topkapi Palace, where sultans and their families live, is waiting to be seen in the Historic Peninsula with all its glory.

Grand Bazaar

It is one of the oldest shopping places in the world.
One of the most popular stops of the historic peninsula is the Covered Bazaar which has been standing in Beyazit for 550 years. Famous for the streets where you will disappear...

Basilica Cistern

The cistern, built to meet the water needs of the palace in the Byzantine period, still impresses with its eye-catching columns and the Medusa statue.

Sultanahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque)

The most important feature of the Blue Mosque is that it was decorated with the highest quality Iznik tiles of the Ottoman period. The foreign visitors, who were influenced by these magnificent tiles, named Blue Mosque.

German fountain

German Emperor II Wilhelm built the fountain as gift to Istanbul as a sign of Turkish-German friendship.

Columns

Obelisk, the most famous among these three storied monuments, was brought from Egypt in 390 and erected in its present place at full thirty-one days.

Pargali Damat Ibrahim Pasha Palace

Today, it is used as the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art and took its name from Damat Ibrahim Pasha, the second vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Istanbul Archeology Museum

The archaeological museum is one of the largest museums in the world with over one million works of various cultures.

Aya Irini Church

Aya İrini, located in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace's courtyard, next to Hagia Sophia and contemporary with it, is the largest Byzantine church in Istanbul, which has not been converted into a mosque.

Foundations Carpet Museum

It has one of the world's richest carpet collections. Seljuk and the Ottoman period with an old Islamic tradition of mosques, tombs and mosques donated to the historical and artistic value of the carpets exhibited in the museum, with their own

Sogukcesme Street

Sogukcesme Street, an open-air museum. Between the Hagia Sophia Mosque and the Topkapi Palace, there are twelve bay windows, wooden houses, and a Roman cistern...

Little Hagia Sophia Mosque

This church was built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora as a church in the 530s and converted to a mosque after the conquest of Istanbul.

Sultanahmet Hippodrome (Horse Square)

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