Private Istanbul Highlights Tour up 8 guests with Licenced Guide

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  Topkapi Palace Museum

  Topkapi Palace (Topkapı Sarayı) was commissioned by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror shortly after his conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Construction began in 1460, and the palace remained the heart of the Ottoman Empire for nearly 400 years, until the royal family moved to the Dolmabahçe Palace in the 19th century.

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 2
  Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque

  The Byzantine Church of Divine Wisdom. Originally built as an Orthodox basilica, it later was used as a mosque, and now is a museum. Built in 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, it served as the cathedral of Constantinople and was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years. Upon the conquering of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453, it became a mosque and was used as such until 1931.

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 3
  Blue Mosque

  Departing Hagia Sophia you will next visit the world renowned Blue Mosque finished in 1616. The Blue Mosque was commissioned by Sultan Ahmet I when he was only 19 years old. The interior of the mosque is lined with more than 20,000 handmade ceramic tiles in more than fifty different tulip designs. The tiles at lower levels are traditional in design, while in the galleries they become flamboyant with representations of flowers, fruit and trees.

  45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 4
  Hippodrome

  Obelisk of Theodosius Walled Obelisk

  30 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 5
  German Fountain

  This historical fountain 15 located in Sultanahmet square across the tomb of Sultan Ahmet I. It was a present to the sultan and to the city by German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Made in Germany, in the neo-Byzantine style and ornamented inside with gold mosaic it was erected in Istanbul in 1901

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 6
  Grand Bazaar

  In this labyrinth of streets and passages are more than 4000 shops with each trade having its own area; the goldsmiths’ street, the carpet sellers, Turkish arts and crafts, such as handpainted ceramic plates, hand-honed copperware, brasware and trays, water ewers, onyxware and meerschaum pipers.

  1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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