frequent flyers club | bmi What to See & Do in Istanbul These are the sights you should be sure to see, ranked in order of importance and ease of access . ( Here are daily itineraries for the top sites. , and here are the best things to do with kids. ) Luckily, the first six sights are close together near Sultanahmet Square. You can visit them on your own, or on Efendi Travel 's value-for-money Old Istanbul Guided Walking Tour . Sites farther out ( Kariye mosaics , City Walls , Tekfur Saray , Ecumenical Patriarchate ) can easily be visited on a Kariye & City Walls tour .) I've also made up self-guided walking tours . 1. Home (and Harem !) 2. Changed the course of Western architecture; greatest church in Christendom for 1000 years. 3. Islam 's elegant answer to Ayasofya, with six minarets and blue interior tiles. 4. The political and recreational heart of Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul. 5. Facing the Blue Mosque on the Hippodrome, a treasure-house of 1000 years of fine art. 6. 7. 8. 9. The romance of 19th-century Istanbul. 10. 11. 12.
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