Day 01
Ottoman Splendours at Valide Mosque and Topkapı Palace
Pick up from your hotel and meet your Istanbul tour guide.
Visit Valide Mosque, also called the New Mosque, completed in 1664. This was the last imperial mosque built in the classical style and is situated in one of the centres of the city's crowded daily life, next to both land and sea traffic.
Continue to Topkapı Palace, the residence of the early and mid-era Ottoman Sultans. It was the principal residence of the Ottoman Sultans and the center of administration of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th to the 19th century.
See the fabulous Imperial Treasury, the Baghdad Kiosk, Holy Relics, and the Kitchen Section, including one of the world's finest collections of Chinese celadon ceramics.
Drive back to your hotel at the end of the tour.
