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288 reviews 80 travel blogs 141 photos Attraction Type:
Architectural building, Historic home, Historic site, History museum
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Dolmabahce Palace (Dolmabahce Sarayi) Istanbul
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My day pre-Miranda
I was super bummed that Miranda didn't make it into Istanbul, but it did give me a day to do whatever I wanted. I started out by heading to Dolmabahce Palace, where the Ottoman Sultans lived after they moved out of Topkapi Palace and before the royal family was exiled. There were 2 parts of the palice to see, the Sulikiman (sultan's part) and the …
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I don't know how I feel about heights
Today after our wonderful breakfast we are walking to the Dolmabahce Palace. Judging from the maps it is within walking distance. We ended up taking a wrong turn and walking the long way but the Dolmabahce Palace was very close to our ...
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Istanbul the magnificent
... I wasn't to be disappointed. There's some awesome architecture on both sides of the Bosphorus as you head east, including the Dolmabahce Palace (where Attaturk gasped his last breath) and the eye-popping Kepinsky Hotel (think that's how it's spelt) a ...
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It's not funny, they are all maniacs (The Turks)
... earlier the taxi driver who we thought was conning us. The road was closed. The stretch of road from Besiktas past Dolmabahce Palace all the way to Taksim Meydane, why?...football of course. Supporters were everywhere but they were holding their football ...
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Spring, Eurovision and Besiktas football
... even thinking of moving for the cars to pass, Turkish are passionate and football is their ultimate passion. It is coincidentally Besiktas's centennial year and their stadium overlooks Dolmabahce Palace and the Bosphorous strait looking towards ...
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Dolmabahçe Palace
... of his death 69 years ago. Either way it was a quite touching reminder of the reverence with which Attaturk is viewed here in Turkey. After our palace visit Jess went with girls to visit Taksim square and I headed off on a different ...
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It's Istanbul; not Constantinople!
... explored sites around the dock. Early morning lighting added to the beauty of the surroundings. We explored the area around Dolmabahce Palace and later, we joined my brothers, their wives and two friends from San Francisco, for a walk to ...
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More Istanbul
... by the guy...not sure whether i got taken, but it seemed like a pretty good deal. After that we travelled to the Dolmabahce Palace north of the Golden Horn (the other river)...we took the light rail, and walked a bit. The Palace was different from ...
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Istanbul on my birthday
... by the west in this role. The palace was at the centre of Ottoman political life until the 19th C when the Dolmabahce Palace was built on the banks of the Bosphorus. Although it started with around 600 residents, the population of the palace rose ...
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Reflections
... have all begun to feel familiar to me. I have also seen some fantastic sights--the Haya Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Dolmabahce Palace, the Grand Bazaar--and I now have a concept of what it means to have two thousand years of ...
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Second day in Istanbul
... Topkapi Palace and built the Dolmabahce Palace which we visited yesterday. While it wasn't decorated as lavishly as the Dolmabahce Palace, it gave us a better feel for the traditional Turkish imperial life since the palace housed numerous sultans for ...
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