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around the year- It is a daily tour, it would operate privately for individual or group tours, and booking is required in advance.
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- Set menu lunch on the tour
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- The order of the itinerary is indicative and subject to change, but all visits described will take place.
- This is a regular group tour, but if requested at cost can be provided as a private tour.
- The regular group tour has shopping stops included in the tour.
- The vegetarian lunch option is available upon request.
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- Turkish Bath (Turkish Hammam).
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Daily Christian Heritage Tour of Basilica Cistern, Valens Aqueduct, Hagia Sophia
TOUR CODE: TTI - 125
Tour of Hagia Sophia, Hagia Irene, Aqueduct of Valens, Basilica Cistern, Constantine Column.
Tour of Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum: Hagia Sophia Mosque and Museum is known as the 8th wonder of the world. Hagia Irene Church Museum: Hagia Irene Church Museum is the First Church of Byzantium. The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque: It is the church built by Justinian and his wife Theodor II. The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul: The Valens Aqueduct is 971 meters long and its peak height is approximately 29 meters. Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul: One of the magnificent historical structures of Istanbul is the Basilica Cistern located to the southwest of Hagia Sophia. The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column): The Column of Constantine, which was given great importance during the Byzantine period.
Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum, Hagia Irene Church Museum, The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul, Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul, The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column.
OVERVIEW TOUR
Tour of Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum: Hagia Sophia Mosque and Museum is known as the 8th wonder of the world. Hagia Irene Church Museum: Hagia Irene Church Museum is the First Church of Byzantium. The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque: It is the church built by Justinian and his wife Theodor II. The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul: The Valens Aqueduct is 971 meters long and its peak height is approximately 29 meters. Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul: One of the magnificent historical structures of Istanbul is the Basilica Cistern located to the southwest of Hagia Sophia. The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column): The Column of Constantine, which was given great importance during the Byzantine period.
Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum, Hagia Irene Church Museum, The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul, Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul, The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column.
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Food - Gastronomy
Set menu lunch at the tours includes cost but drinks excluding.Photography - Taking Amazing Photos
You can take lovely photos during the tour.Trekking
If you have walking difficulty please let us know in advanceBoat
There are no cruises included in the on the tour.ITINERARY
08.30 You would pick up from your hotel and start to visit the following sites listed below.
List of the places you will visit:
Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum: Hagia Sophia Mosque and Museum is known as the 8th wonder of the world. Emperor Justinianos commissioned the work. Thousands of workers worked in its construction and it took 5 years in total. Thus it was opened in 537. While Hagia Sophia was being built, thousands of marble and mosaic stones were brought from all over the world. These marbles and stones consist of the best marbles and stones of the period. Thus, the best work of the period was created. It was used as a church from the construction of Hagia Sophia until the conquest of Istanbul. However, after the conquest, the church was converted into a mosque. It was converted into a museum in 1935. What makes the interior of the Hagia Sophia Museum magnificent is that its dome is suspended in the air. This magnificent structure has been repaired during the reign of Sultan Abdülmecid. Inside the dome is written the 35th verse of the An-Nur Surah in the Holy Quran, which means "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth." It started to serve again as Hagia Sophia Mosque on July 24, 2020, and today the ground floor serves as a mosque and the upper floor serves as a museum..
Hagia Irene Church Museum: Hagia Irene Church Museum is the First Church of Byzantium. While rebuilding the city, Constantine, one of the Roman Emperors, built a forum, a palace, and a hippodrome in his name, as well as the Hagia Irene Church on top of the Roman temples in the 330s. The dictionary meaning of Hagia Irene or Hagia Eirene is 'Holy Peace'; but also a saint who lived in the same century. The real name of the saint is Penelope. He tries to spread Christianity. He is thrown into a well full of snakes by pagans, but he does not die. He is stoned, tied to horses, and dragged; yet he does not die. At the end of the miracles, pagans become Christians; Irene is also a saint. Emperor Constantine named the first temple of the monotheistic religion, which he built upon this extraordinary event, Hagia Irene.
The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque: It is the church built by Justinian and his wife Theodor II. It was converted into a mosque during the reign of Bayezid (1481-1512). It was built between 527-536 and was known as Hagia Sergios and Bachos Church in its early periods. In the following years, it was converted into a mosque. It was built just a few years before the Grand Hagia Sophia Mosque Museum. The little Hagia Sophia Mosque was repaired in 1836 and 1956. Little Hagia Sophia was damaged in the earthquakes of 1648 and 1766. What causes the most damage to the structure is the railway line built right in front of it. In addition, construction disorders have both damaged the structure and changed its appearance. Finally, the 1999 Marmara Earthquake caused some cracks in the structure.
The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul: The Valens Aqueduct is 971 meters long and its peak height is approximately 29 meters. It is not a completely flat and orderly structure because some of its components have been rebuilt at various points over time. On the other hand, the arches between 41 and 45 and 52 and 56, respectively, belong to II. It was rebuilt during the reigns of Mustafa and Suleiman I. As can be seen, arches 1 – 40 (including 1 and 40) and 46 – 51 have remained unchanged since the time of Emperor Valens. The width of the aqueduct is also asymmetrical, its widest point is 8.24 meters and its narrowest point is 7.75 meters. The columns are 3.70 meters thick and currently extend 6 meters below the surface. When you look at the map of the Valens Aqueduct, you can see that the water converging near Edirnekapı comes from the northeast and northwest parts of the Valens Aqueduct. Daily flow measured in the 1950s was around 6,000 m3.
Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul: One of the magnificent historical structures of Istanbul is the Basilica Cistern located to the southwest of Hagia Sophia. This large underground cistern, built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565), was popularly called the "Basilica Palace" due to the seemingly countless marble columns rising from the water. Since there was a Basilica before where the cistern was located, it is also known as the Basilica Cistern. The cistern is a giant structure that covers a rectangular area with a length of 140 meters and a width of 70 meters. There are 336 columns, each 9 meters high, in this cistern, which can be accessed via a 52-step stone staircase. These columns, erected 4.80 meters apart, form 12 rows of 28 columns each. The attic space of the cistern was transferred to the columns through arches.
The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column): The Column of Constantine, which was given great importance during the Byzantine period, did not lose its importance during the Ottoman period and has survived to the present day after undergoing various repairs. This approximately 1700-year-old monumental structure, which bears witness to the history of Istanbul, is one of the must-see works in the Historical Peninsula. In 324, Roman Emperor Constantine decided to move the center of his Empire to the eastern province of Byzantium. He asks his architects to completely overhaul the city and build a magnificent Roman city on seven hills. While structures such as the Grand Palace and the Hippodrome were built in the area where Sultanahmet Square is located, the Konstantinos Forum was built in the area where Çemberlitaş is located, as the political and commercial square of the city. As a symbol of the emperor's power, the Çemberlitaş Column was brought from Rome and erected in the middle of the circular square in 328. While initially there was a statue of the Sun god Apollo at the top of the column, later Constantine had his own statue placed. It is stated that the length of the column and the statue at that time was 57 meters. However, the statue of Constantine did not remain on the column for long, and later the statues of the Emperors Lulianos and Theodosius, who succeeded him respectively, took their place on this column.
17:00 End of the tour you will transferred to your hotel
HIGHLIGHTS OF TOUR Tour of Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum: Hagia Sophia Mosque and Museum is known as the 8th wonder of the world. Hagia Irene Church Museum: Hagia Irene Church Museum is the First Church of Byzantium. The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque: It is the church built by Justinian and his wife Theodor II. The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul: The Valens Aqueduct is 971 meters long and its peak height is approximately 29 meters. Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul: One of the magnificent historical structures of Istanbul is the Basilica Cistern located to the southwest of Hagia Sophia. The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column): The Column of Constantine, which was given great importance during the Byzantine period.
Hagia Sophia Mosque & Museum, Hagia Irene Church Museum, The Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, The Aqueduct of Valens in Istanbul, Basilica Cistern Museum Istanbul, The Column of Constantine (Çemberlitaş Column.INCLUDED and EXCLUDED
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