Guide 11 of 29

The Grand Bazaar

İstanbul

A trading machine five centuries old: strongrooms, courtyard hans, guild streets and workshops still in use. Fifteen stops on how to read a covered market, about twenty-six minutes.

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Duration21min
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The Grand Bazaar
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The Weeping Column

Hagia Sophia · northwest corner

That column is darker than the others. Because it doesn't belong here — it was brought from Ephesus. For fifteen hundred years everyone touched the same spot, which is why the brass shines.

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