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.
Stops15
Duration21min
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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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