ISTANBUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan ...
Topkapi Palace served as the home of the Ottoman Sultans from 1478 to 1856 and is one of Istanbul's most popular attractions. It officially became a museum in 1924, shortly after the end of the ...
At the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, which opened near the Topkapi Palace Museum in 1869, you'll find more than a million antiquities displayed throughout three buildings: the Archaeological ...
Spread across two continents and between two seas, Istanbul is a city of empires past. The Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, and Galata Tower are just some of the many historic structures ...
The only city in the world that straddles two continents, Ä°stanbul is a place of compelling contrasts and centuries of ...