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Istanbul Modern frequently hosts the exhibitions of renowned Turkish and foreign artists. Pera Museum and Sakip Sabanci Museum have hosted the exhibitions of world famous artists and are among the most important private museums in the city. Istanbul Archaeology Museum, established in 1881, is one of the largest museums of its kind in the world.
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ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUMS OF ISTANBULThe Istanbul Archaeology Museum is located in the Eminonu district near Gulhane Park and Topkapi Palace. The Istanbul Archaeology Museum consists of three museums. Archaeological Museum (main building), Museum of the Ancient Orient and the Museum of Islamic Art. It houses over one million objects ... |
COLUMN OF THE GOTHSThe Column of the Goths is an 18.5 meter high free-standing Proconnesian marble pillar surmounted with a Corinthian capital dating to Roman times in Gülhane Park, Istanbul. The name of this monument derives from a Latin inscription at its base, commemorating a Roman victory over the invading Goths ... |
COLUMN OF MARCIANThe Column of Marcian is a monument erected in Constantinople in 455 dedicated to the Emperor Marcian. It is made of red-grey Egyptian granite, in two pieces. The basis is quadrilateral, formed by four slabs in white marble, decorated with Chi-Rhos inside medallions on three faces, and two genii holding a globe ... |
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GALATA TOWER The Galata Tower - called Christea Turris by the Genoese - is a medieval stone tower in the Galata district of Istanbul, just to the north of the Golden Horn. One of the city's most striking landmarks, it is a high, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline and affords a panoramic vista of Old Istanbul and its environs ... |
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HIPPODROME OF CONSTANTINOPLE The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a circus that was the sporting and social centre of the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Today it is a square named Sultan Ahmet Square in the Turkish city of Istanbul, with only a few fragments of the original structure surviving. It is sometimes also called Horse Square ... |
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MAIDEN'S TOWER The Maiden's Tower (Turkish: Kiz Kulesi), also known in the ancient Greek and medieval Byzantine periods as Leander's Tower (Tower of Leandros), sits on a small islet located in the Bosphorus strait off the coast of Üsküdar in IstanbuL. Maiden's Tower was first built by the ancient Athenian general Alcibiades in 408 BC ... |
THE MILIONThe Milion, was a mile-marker monument erected in the early 4th century AD in Constantinople. It was the starting-place for measurement of distances for all the roads leading to the cities of the Byzantine Empire and had the same function as the Milliarium Aureum of Rome. It survived intact until at least the late 15th century ... |
SERPENT COLUMNThe Serpent Column - also known as the Serpentine Column, Delphi Tripod or Plataean Tripod - is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople in what is now Istanbul, Turkey. It is part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi and relocated to Constantinople by Constantine I the Great in 324 ... |
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