Topkapi Palace and the Asian side of Istanbul
October 7th 2015 For day 3, we started our day at Topkapi Palace which served as the sole administrative palace for the Ottoman sultans for more than 400 years. It's quite the complex, and again the Iznik tile work was the most amazing of anything we've seen thus far. There are two areas in the palace that you have to wait in a super long line to get in, the first being the treasury that has golden cradles, swords
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