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Istanbul: The Trace City — Topkapı, Hippodrome & Grand Bazaar
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Istanbul
Informations importantes
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Des options de transport en commun sont disponibles à proximité
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Adapté à tous les niveaux de condition physique
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What is the group size? Maximum 10 guests, allowing for conversation and a flexible walking pace.
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Is this tour suitable for first-time visitors? Yes. The route includes some of Istanbul's best-known landmarks while connecting them to streets, neighbourhoods and surviving traces that reveal how the Old City developed over time.
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How much walking is involved? Approximately 3–3.5 km (about 2 miles) through Istanbul's historic core, including cobblestone and uneven streets. The tour is entirely on foot and runs at a comfortable pace.
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Are entrance fees included? No paid admission is included in the tour price. The core route does not require guests to purchase tickets. If an optional paid site is visited, admission is at the guest's own expense.
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Do we go inside Hagia Sophia or Topkapı Palace? Hagia Sophia is viewed from the exterior. At Topkapı Palace, the tour visits only the free First Courtyard; admission to the inner palace is not included.
Politique d'annulation
Pour un remboursement complet, annulez au moins 24 heures avant l'heure de départ prévue.
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Pour un remboursement complet, vous devez annuler au moins 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience.
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Les délais limites sont basés sur l'heure locale de l'expérience.
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Si vous annulez moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience, le montant que vous avez payé ne sera pas remboursé.
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Cette expérience nécessite un nombre minimum de voyageurs. Si elle est annulée parce que le minimum n'est pas atteint, on vous proposera une autre date/expérience ou un remboursement intégral.
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Toute modification effectuée moins de 24 heures avant l'heure de début de l'expérience ne sera pas acceptée.
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Istanbul's Old City is usually experienced as a checklist of monuments. This walk takes a different approach: following the streets, public spaces, neighborhoods, and surviving traces that reveal how the city changed from Constantinople to Ottoman Istanbul and into the city of today.
Begin inside Topkapı Palace's First Courtyard, then move from the monumental center around Hagia Sophia and the Hippodrome into Kadırga's neighborhood streets. Along the way, encounter a Greek Orthodox church, an Ottoman hammam, the route of the ancient Mese, the Column of Constantine, the Grand Bazaar, and Beyazıt Square.
Rather than moving from attraction to attraction, the walk connects these places as part...
Points forts
De 4 heures à 5 heures
Proposé en Anglais & Turc
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
De 4 heures à 5 heures
Proposé en Anglais & Turc
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Guide touristique professionnel agréé anglophone
Insider recommendations throughout: where to eat, what to look for, how to navigate like a local
pourboires/gratifications pour votre guide
Transport vers/depuis le point de rendez-vous
Hagia Sophia —not visited on this tour; exterior only
Topkapı Sarayı inner courtyards — only the free First Courtyard is visited
Paid admission to any optional sites or museums
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Cafer Ağa Madrasa
Meet your guide at the entrance of Caferağa Medresesi, a short walk behind Hagia Sophia. Please arrive 5–10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Retour
Beyazit Square
The tour ends at Beyazıt Square, beside Istanbul University and close to the Grand Bazaar. From here, guests can easily continue exploring the historic center or reach the T1 tram at Beyazıt–Kapalıçarşı.
Istanbul: The Trace City — Topkapı, Hippodrome & Grand Bazaar
(2) Avis
Istanbul
À propos
Istanbul's Old City is usually experienced as a checklist of monuments. This walk takes a different approach: following the streets, public spaces, neighborhoods, and surviving traces that reveal how the city changed from Constantinople to Ottoman Istanbul and into the city of today.
Begin inside Topkapı Palace's First Courtyard, then move from the monumental center around Hagia Sophia and the Hippodrome into Kadırga's neighborhood streets. Along the way, encounter a Greek Orthodox church, an Ottoman hammam, the route of the ancient Mese, the Column of Constantine, the Grand Bazaar, and Beyazıt Square.
Rather than moving from attraction to attraction, the walk connects these places as part...
Points forts
De 4 heures à 5 heures
Proposé en Anglais & Turc
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
De 4 heures à 5 heures
Proposé en Anglais & Turc
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Guide touristique professionnel agréé anglophone
Insider recommendations throughout: where to eat, what to look for, how to navigate like a local
pourboires/gratifications pour votre guide
Transport vers/depuis le point de rendez-vous
Hagia Sophia —not visited on this tour; exterior only
Topkapı Sarayı inner courtyards — only the free First Courtyard is visited
Paid admission to any optional sites or museums
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Cafer Ağa Madrasa
Meet your guide at the entrance of Caferağa Medresesi, a short walk behind Hagia Sophia. Please arrive 5–10 minutes before the scheduled start time.
Retour
Beyazit Square
The tour ends at Beyazıt Square, beside Istanbul University and close to the Grand Bazaar. From here, guests can easily continue exploring the historic center or reach the T1 tram at Beyazıt–Kapalıçarşı.
Itinéraire
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Madrasa Caferaga
Hidden in Hagia Sophia's shadow, this 16th-century Ottoman medrese was designed by Mimar Sinan — a quiet start before the walk begins.
10 minutes
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Palais de Topkapi
Sultans entered through this gate. We start where they did — inside the outer courtyard, no ticket required.
20 minutes
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Musée Sainte-Irène
Istanbul's only Byzantine church the Ottomans never converted into a mosque. Most visitors walk past it without knowing it's there. Entrance fee not included (visible from the outside)
20 minutes
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Fountain of Ahmet III
A fountain so ornate it needed its own architectural style — Ottoman Rococo, right at the palace gate, and almost everyone photographs past it.
10 minutes
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Sainte-Sophie
We don't go inside — and that's intentional. From the outside, you can read the full story: church, mosque, museum, mosque again, all in one silhouette."
20 minutes
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Mimar Sinan's impossible commission: fit a bathhouse between the empire's two holiest buildings without upstaging either. He pulled it off.
15 minutes
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Milion Stone
Once the zero-kilometer marker of the Byzantine Empire — every road east once measured its distance from this stone.
10 minutes
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Mosquée bleue
Six minarets — a number that scandalized the Ottoman court when it was built, because only Mecaa's mosque had that many.
20 minutes
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Hippodrome
The spine of Byzantine Constantinople. Romans raced chariots here; emperors staged their power in front of 100,000 spectators. Three surviving monuments still stand in a row.
20 minutes
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La beauté de Sutunu
The column marking where Constantinople was founded as 'New Rome' in 330 AD — standing, forgotten, in the middle of a shopping street.
10 minutes
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Mosquée Nuruosmaniye
150 years after the Blue Mosque, the empire looked to Europe for the first time. This is what that shift looked like in stone.
15 minutes
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Grand Bazar
We enter together — not through the main gate with the tourist current, but through the merchants' threshold, Nuruosmaniye's own door into the market.
