Istanbul Constantinople City Walls and Chora Church Private Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1
  The Walls of Istanbul

  Our private guide will pick you from your hotel with driver and VIP vehicle. Then, you will start your tour by driving beside of almost 2 thousand years of Old Ancient City Walls of (Constantinople) İstanbul. (you can stop any time you want by the city wall and clime up to the city wall)

  1 hour • Admission ticket free
• 2
  Yedikule (Castle of the Seven Towers)

  You will stop by Yedikule Fortress Museum or called Seven Dungeons, where the first Ottoman sultan has been strangled by his own man and also prison to royal christian who have been captured by Ottoman Empire. After Seven Dungeons, we will drive you by the old city walls to the Chora Church.

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 3
  Chora Museum

  The interesting thing about this church is MOSAİCS and İcons, you will see depicting of mosaics and icons are based on history of Christianity and dynasty and life of Jesus Christ been depicted as documentations. The reason why these mosaics has been depicted that in the back of time most of people were uneducated but through images they understand way easier. What a clever way to demonstrate! (Admission fee is around 20$)

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 4
  Tekfur Sarayi

  After you are done with Chora Church also our guide will take to the last Byzantine Palace, Tekfur Palace where the last emperor lived that is also amazing place where you can climb up the palace rooftop and see the whole city wall remain. (Admission fee is around 10$)

  45 minutes • Admission ticket not included
• 5
  Nakkas Oriental Rugs & Textiles

  Nakkaş Cistern. A secret landmark in the center of Istanbul! The city of Constantinople have formidable fortification city walls... but in the back of time, it was not enough just to have city walls. İstanbul or the Constantinople did not have sufficient water sources so the enemies would siege the city and wait them to surrender! And there comes the Roman genius engineering solutions to problem by building Water Cisterns Underground, beneath of the city! We will be able to give you all details between city walls and the Cisterns. This is kind of hiden cistern that not many people knows! You may pasing everyday but you think its just a carpet and jewelery shop... but its more than that... And with licsened certificate guide you dont pay any fee..

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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