THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ISTANBUL HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS

The palace is positioned to the shores in the Bosphorus Strait and boasts a formidable 285 rooms, forty six halls, and 6 hamams (Turkish baths). It was constructed by Sultan Abdulmecid I, who needed a grand palace that would replicate the wealth and energy of your Ottoman Empire.The Galata Tower, a medieval stone tower built-in 1348 through an expa