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Yıldız Palace and Park
İstanbul
The walled hillside of a ruler who turned his back on the palace by the water: scattered pavilions instead of one façade, a porcelain works, a theatre and a library. Twelve stops, about twenty-five minutes.
Stops12
Duration16min
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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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