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Istanbul Tours & Daily
Tour Excurions in Istanbul
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1 :Bosphorous Tour |
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Spice
Bazaar: This covered market is an attractive L-shaped building to the southwest of
the Yeni Cami. Its English name survives from
the time when the market specialized in the
sale of spices and herbs, as well as medicinal
plants and drugs.
Boat
Cruise on Bosphorus: The Bosphorus - the waterway between two continents - is beautiful at any time,
day or night in any season.
On the way to the Black Sea,
you can see the finest and
richest examples of the Ottoman houses and palaces on the shores.
Rumeli
Fortress: In 1452, Mehmet II prepared to besiege Constantinople by constructing a fortress
at Rumeli Hisari. It took
less than four months
to build, thanks to 3000 laborers and master masons assigned to the task. Its crenellated walls
and round towers are popular
with photgraphers and
what you see from the top
of
the walls is one of the nicest view of the Bosphorus. |
| Price: 35
Euros Includes:Guiding and entrance fees. |
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2:Dolmabahce and Asia Tour |
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Dolmabahce Palace: This
area was originally the bay where the navy anchored in
the early periods when the Ottomans conquered Istanbul.
Between
1611-1614, this bay had been filled in and a timber building
with a large garden called "the Besiktas Palace" had been built with the order of Sultan Ahmet I. The land of the Besiktas Palace,
which had become completely useless due to a fire, was
chosen as the site of the new palace by Sultan Abdulmecit
I, since
it was by the sea side and close to the city center.
Bosphorus
Bridge: Unique chance to step from one continent (Europe) to another (Asia) within
few minutes. The Ataturk Bridge carries
200.000 vehicles and 600.000 people
a day. It is the 4th longest suspension
bridges in the Europe and 7th in the world.
Camlica
Hill: Camlica Hill is one of the highest point of the Bosphorus and Istanbul. The
Camlica Hill has a wonderful
panorama including the
Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus,
Historical Peninsula and islands. |
| Price::
35 Euros Includes:Guiding and entrance fees. |
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2: Byzantine meets Ottoman Tour |
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Blue
Mosque: Its magnificent series of domes and semi-domes, its six slender minarets sprouting
from the corners of the mosque, its spacious courtyard,
and its grandiose yet elegant proportions, make
the Blue Mosque one of the architectural marvels
of the world.
Hippodrome
and Obelisks: The ancient Hippodrome, the scene of chariot races and the center of Byzantine
civil life, stood in the open space
in front of the Blue Mosque.
Haghia
Sophia
Museum: Haghia Sophia was built at the command of Emperor Justinian in the years 532
to 537.
The courtyard
of Haghia
Sophia
harbors
a number
of minor
but fascinating
Ottoman
structures.
Grand
Bazaar: The Grand Bazaar was built at the command of Fatih Mehmet shortly after the
Conquest.
It
contains
4399
shops,
2195
workshops,
497
stalls
and
18
fountains. |
| Price: 60
Euros Includes:Guiding and entrance fees. |
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Topkapi
Palace: As the administrative center, for nearly 400 years, for the Ottoman Empire,
which was one of the greatest empires of
the world, Topkapi Palace is certainly the
most important historical site to be visited
in Istanbul. In 1461, less than ten years after the Conquest, Fatih Mehmet ordered the construction
of Topkapi Sarayi a palace that would be
known as Dar-us Saadet, the "House of Felicity". Topkapi Sarayi remained the seat of the Ottoman Sultans until 1868, when Abdulmecit
I moved to the European-style Dolmabahce
Palace farther up the Bosphorus.
Suleymaniye
Mosque: Suleymaniye is without question one of the greatest works of its architect,
Sinan. Begun in 1550, the
mosque was completed in
1557, with two more years
required in order to finish
the entire complex. |
| Price: 30
Euros Includes:Guiding and entrance fees. |
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4: Bosphorous and 2 Continents Tour |
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Depart
from your hotel in the morning on a full day
tour visiting the scents of the Spice Bazaar,
a Boat Cruise on the Bosphorus with a visit
to the Rumeli Fortress. After a break for lunch,
depart once again for a visit to the Dolmabahce
Palace, Bosphorus Bridge and Camlica Hill. After
the tour, transfer back to your hotel. |
| Price: 70
EurosIncludes:Guiding, lunch and entrance fees. |
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| Tour 5
: Byzantine and Ottoman Relics Tour |
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Depart from your hotel in the morning on a full day tour
visiting the magesty of the Blue Mosque, the Hippodrome
and Obelisks and the magnificence of the Haghia Sophia.
Also a visit to the maze that is the Grand Bazaar before
a break for lunch.
After lunch continue on our journey to the Topkapi Palace
and Suleymaniye Mosque. After the tour, transfer back to
your hotel.
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| Price: 60
Euros Includes:Guiding, lunch and entrance fees. |
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6 : Chora Church and City Walls Tour |
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Chora Museum: The
mosaics and frescoes in St. Savior are by far the most important
works of Byzantine pictorial art known today, in terms of
both their beauty and their number. It is fascinating to
realize that they are coeval with the frescoes of Giotto
in Italy. And while different in certain particulars, they
nonetheless appear to radiate the same sense of living, breathing
reality so characteristic of the Early Renaissance.
The
Eyup Quarter: Eyup quarter and mosques take their name from Eyup Ensari, the companion and
standard-bearer of the Prophet Mohammed
killed during the first siege of Constantinople.
Ancient
City Walls: The land walls, for the most part, date from the reign of Emperor Theodosius
II (408-450). The initial
phase of construction,
which produced one long
high wall
punctuated at regular intervals by some hundred bastions of defense towers, was completed
in 413 under the supervision
of Anthemius Perfect
of the Eastern Empire. |
| Price: 60
Euros Includes:Guiding and entrance fees. |
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7 : Princes' Island Cruise |
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Depart
from you hotel in the morning for a Cruise on
Marmara Sea. Travel on to
Buyuk
Ada Island: The Island is in the Sea of Marmara, twenty kilometers from the historic peninsula.
This popular summer resort
with its sandy beaches and
pinewood scenery, was once
the pleasure island of the
Byzantine Princes'.
Enjoy a ride on a Horse Drawn Carriage and then sit back
and relax for a while during the break for lunch. Afer lunch,
return to Istanbul by cruise.
Lunch is included in the tour as well as transfer back to
your hotel. |
| Price: 70
Euros Includes:Lunch and entrance fees. |
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Haghia
Sophia is closed on Mondays and will be replaced
by the Underground Cistern.
The Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays.
Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and will be replaced
with the Turkish and Islamic Art Museum.
Chora
Church Tour - Departure Thursday and
Saturday |
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