Guide 08 of 29
The Chora Church
İstanbul
The last and finest word of Byzantine painting: seven-hundred-year-old mosaics and frescoes in a church paid for by one statesman. Twenty-two stops, about forty minutes.
Stops22
Duration23min
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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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