Monday, January 22, 2007. The admission fee is 10 YTL which is approximately 8 EUR or 7 USD in 2006 season. Hagia Sophia Church is one of the most extraordinary buildings in the history of architecture and from the Golden Age of Byzantium. It played such an important role in Byzantine Empire as well as in Ottoman Empire as a mosque.

Monday, January 22, 2007. This palace was built by Abdulhamid, and consists of kiosks, chalets and pavilions.

Monday, January 22, 2007. Aynalıkavak Pavilion is the sole remaining building from a large Ottoman palace known as Aynalıkavak Palace or Tersane palace, dating back to the 17th century. This pretty building on the shore or the Golden Horn is a reminder that this now built-up area was for centuries a place parks, meadows and streams where the Ottoman sultans and before them the Byzantines came for country excursions.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Bosphorus Waterside Residences and Bridges. Ceiling and wall decorations are of western influenced examples of the l9th century.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007. The Suleymaniye is one of the finest and most magnificent imperial mosque complexes in the city. Suleyman was the tenth sultan of the Ottoman dynasty . After thirty years of rule, Suleyman The Magnificent decided to have a mosque built and Sinan, the greatest of Ottoman architects, was commissioned. The mosque stands in the center of the courtyard surro.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007. It is difficult, and probably pointless, to attempt to avoid comparison with Haghia Sophia. This is the mosque that most visitors see first.

Monday, January 22, 2007. The first major one took place in 196, during the reign of the Roman emperor Septimus Severus. This involved the rebuilding of the land wall. Another Roman emperor, Constantine the Great, transformed the city into a great metropolis that he renamed Constantinopolis. This city was to become the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. This was the beginning of an unprecedented scheme of gran.