Topkapı palace & Harem. The Home of the Sultans & Concubines
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3h
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About this experience
Booking this tour will help you to skip the ticket lines as your tickets will provided after you book the tour. You will be guided by a historian licensed guide who is expert in Ottoman history. You will be guided inside the palace, Harem and Hagia İrine. All the three separate tickets are included.
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Topkapı palace & Harem. The Home of the Sultans & Concubines
What's included
Ticket to Harem section
Ticket to Palace
Detailed itinerary
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Stop 1
This is the the palace which was built in 1461 and used until 1850s as the residental and parliment house of the empire. The logest palace used by the Ottoman empire. The palace is devided in two sectios as Harem and Selamlık. Selamlık the men and Harem the female section ofthe palace. Your guide will take you inside with the skipping line priorty and will share the history and the stories about the Sultans and his concubines, the polictics, the high and the low period of the empire.
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Stop 2
This is the oldest church built in Istanbul in 4 century A.D.The only church which wasn't converted to a mosque but used as the arsenal of the janiseries ( the guards of the palace). Later used as the first archeology museum of Ottoman Empire and now a museum.
What's not included
Tipping to the guide
Available languages
Guide guide
EN
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Important information
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Meeting point
Our meeting point is 3.Ahmet Çeşmesi ( 3rd Ahmet fountain). It located at the entry of the Topkapı palace which is behind the Hagia Sofia. if you come by tram get off at Sultanahmet/Blue mosque station.
if you come by taxi make sure they take you to Topkapı palace NOT to Topkapı neighbourhood.
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