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16 reviews 10 travel blogs 15 photos Attraction Type:
Ancient ruins, Art museum, History museum
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Touring Istanbul
... city tour consumed the vast majority of our day today. The itinerary was simple enough: Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, Mosaic museum, and Museum of Islamic Arts. But somehow, with our eccentric history professor Christoff, the whole tour took more ...
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Istanbul on my birthday
... 1609 and 1616. It is built on top of the old Byzantine Great Palace (whose mosaic floor is housed nearby in the Mosaic Museum) and next to the Hagia Sophia (a Christian church which had been converted to a large mosque). Several smaller palaces had to ...
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Mosaic musem
... necklace & bracelet. We looked at the outdoor cafe but it was drizzling so we headed straight to the Mosaic Museum. The museum is the home to the Byzantine mosaic floor of the Great Palace of Constantinople which was probably built by ...
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Istanbul
... our hotel area, the SultanAhmet area. Although quite touristic, it has many old bulidlings and the grand Bazaar. We visited a mosaic museum (see photos) and were amazed at the beauty and artistry of Bysantine floor mosaics. We are also bewildered by ...
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Mosaic Museum and avoiding a riot
After breakfast we visited the mosaic museum, which had some lovely and very good mosaics that had been found in Istanbul. After this, we headed over the bridge to the more modern quarter of Istanbul. There we went up the Galata Tower for a view from ...
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City Orientation
... for a vanilla tea break and continued our march. Later we broke off into different groups and the younger ones and I went off to have lunch and visit the Mosaic museum. Tomorrow we are off to Burse and the beginning of our tour. ...
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Küçükayasofya, Hippodrome, Chora Church, Miniaturk
... pants. Simon felt uncomfortable about entering the mosque since he was wearing shorts, so we stopped in at the Grand Palace Mosaic Museum just behind the Blue Mosque instead. The museum was hidden amongst a little street lined with bazaar shops. I have ...
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ISTANBUL, not Constantinople.
... kings—one even still had hair and organs!—and many columns and inscriptions and such. We walked around the mosaic museum after that, and then walked to Topkapi Palace. The palace was so unbelievably beautiful, and luckily the rain had ...
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Istanbul
... Had our first and last turkish coffee - mud Went to Archeology museum - amazing. They have raped and pillaged from all of Turkey and Cyprus. They have so much rock bits that there are areas outside where they are piled ...
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Sultanahmet and Seraglio Point
... day in Istanbul Today I managed to visit a lot of the tourist attractions in Sultanahmet: Blue Mosque, Haghia Sophia, Mosaic Museum, Hippodrome, Basilica Cistern, Topkapi Palace and the Archaeological Museum. By the end of the day, everything ...
Mosaic Museum Map
- Ibrahim Pasa Palace (Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts)
- Sultanahmet District
- Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii)
- Cooking Alaturka
- Yedikule (Castle of the Seven Towers)
- Family Art Gallery
- Bosphorus Zoo
- Sirkeci Station
- Sokollu Mehmet Pasa Mosque
- Catladi Kapi
- The Pudding Shop
- Dervish Dance
- Egyptian Obelisk
- Fountain of Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Corlulu Ali pasa Medresesi
- Bindirdirek Cistern
- Elegance Rug Store
- Hippodrome (Atmeydani)
- Tarihi Galatasaray Hamami
- Yerebatan Sarayi (Underground Cistern)