Places to Visit

Mosques, palaces, Byzantine monuments and neighbourhoods of the Historic Peninsula.

4 places

Home of the Ottoman sultans for nearly 400 years: the Harem, the Treasury and the Sacred Relics.

A three-building museum complex home to the Alexander Sarcophagus and the Treaty of Kadesh tablet.

World-famous carpets and manuscripts inside the Palace of Pargalı İbrahim Pasha.

Mosaics from the Byzantine Great Palace showing hunts and daily life.