Full Day Historical Walking Tour of Istanbul Old City from Hagia Sophia | 6 hours to 8 hours

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Full Day Historical Walking Tour of Istanbul Old City from Hagia Sophia
2 Adults x $38.20
$76.40
Approx Total
$76.40

Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English
  • English Speaking Guiding
  • Lunch
  • Entrance Fees of Topkapi Palace Museum - (750 Turkish Liras)
  • Entrance Fee of Basilica Cistern - 450 Turkish Lira

Overview

We will be meeting with our guests at the gate of the Hagia Sophia and will start our walking tour with visiting Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul. Afterward, we will visit Blue Mosque, A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets, and eight secondary domes. Then we walk to the Hippodrome square and see the city walls and the Leather atelier workshop. You will be seeing each part of the production. After the lunch break, we will visit Topkapi Palace, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.

Meeting points

Our guide will be waiting for you at the gate of the Hagia Sophia Mosque at 09:30 a.m with Istanbul on Tour signed white umbrella .

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

  • Hagia Sophia Moschee

    Officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque and formerly the Church of Hagia Sophia, is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul. Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city's Roman Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935 the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque

    1 hour

  • Blue Mosque

    Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, is an Ottoman-era mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque, it also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah and a hospice. Hand-painted blue tiles adorn the mosque’s interior walls, and at night the mosque is bathed in blue as lights frame the mosque’s five main domes, six minarets, and eight secondary domes. It sits next to the Hagia Sophia, the principal mosque of Istanbul until the Blue Mosque's construction and another popular tourist site.

    45 minutes

  • Hippodrome

    The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social center of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultanahmet Meydanı (Sultan Ahmet Square) in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with a few fragments of the original structure surviving. Horse racing and chariot racing were popular pastimes in the ancient world and hippodromes were common features of Greek cities in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine eras.

    45 minutes

  • TopkapI Palace

    The Topkapı Palace is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.

    1 hour

  • Basilica Cistern

    On tuesdays only, as Topkapi Palace museum is closed on tuesdays and we will visit Underground cistern instead of Topkapi Palace on tuesdays. The Basilica Cistern, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The cistern, located 150 metres

    45 minutes

  • Hagia Irene Museum

    One of the oldest structures inside the Topkapı Palace, dating back to Byzantine Empire era of the Istanbul/Constantinopolis.

    20 minutes

Sample Menu

Additional Info

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and exchanged with Underground cistern visit on Tuesdays

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April 25100% refund
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Reviews by TravelOne travelers

Showing 1-5 of 77 reviews with 5 stars

A charming and energetic guide we got..

Published on Jan, 2025

I went with my family .. our guide was İlayda, she made our trip memorable . Honestly if you get that charming lady as a guide.. believe me.. your trip will be full of fun and you will get energy to walk more miles …

Beautiful

Published on Jan, 2025

Ilayda was super nice and very helpful. Thoroughly explained everything and warned us about the scams and scammers. Thanku darling

Mostly recommend

Published on Jan, 2025

The tour with İlayda was wonderful, she has an amazing knowledge,and she is so patient she lets us explore more and gave us many helpful advices. You have to book the tour, if you want to have an intensive, interesting and entertaining day visiting the most important sights of the historically most significant part of the city.and it was the best private tohr

Must do experience and don’t skip the topikepi museums indoors

Published on Jan, 2025

We had a great day tour with our fun and super patient guide İlayda Aluç. She provided us great insights including pictorial references of old monuments. I wish we had more time but the whole day was very well spent including a yummy lunch

Totally recommend

Published on Jan, 2025

Thanks to İlayda Aluç, i had the best time in Istanbul. The tour was well organized, she was such a warm and a fun person to be around, and well spoken in English too. Totally recommend!

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