
Pera Museum is a museum in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 2005 by the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation.The museum is housed in a renovated historical building, which was originally constructed in 1893 by the architect Achille Manoussos in the Tepebasi neighborhood of Istanbul. The building is one of the most significant in Pera and served [...]

The Istanbul Archaeology Museums is an archeological museum, located in the Eminonu district of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gulhane Park and Topkapi Palace. The site of the museums actually belonged to the Topkapi Palace outer gardens. The museum was founded by decree as the Imperial Museum. When it opened to the public in 1891, it was [...]
The Galata Tower, also called Christea Turris (Tower of Christ) by the Genoese and Megalos Pyrgos (The Great Tower) by the Byzantines, is located in Istanbul, Turkey, to the north of the Golden Horn. One of the city’s most striking landmarks, it is a huge, cone-capped cylinder that dominates the skyline on the Galata side [...]

The Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, located at the European side of the Bosphorus, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1922, apart from a twenty-year interval (1889-1909) in which the Yildiz Palace was used. Dolmabahce Palace was the first European-style palace in Istanbul and was built by Sultan [...]