MONUMENTS OF ISTANBUL,TURKEY

MEMBERS OF TEAM

MIGUEL ROSEIRO (PORTUGAL, COIMBRA)IASON TSOURDINIS(GREECE,XANTHI)

LEANDRO BAPTISTA(PORTUGAL, COIMBRA)GIORGOS DRAKIDIS(GREECE,XANTHI)

ISTANBUL

Beylerbeyi Palace● The Beylerbeyi Palace is located in the

Beylerbeyi neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey at the Asian side of the Bosphorus. An Imperial Ottoman summer residence built in the 1860s, it is now situated immediately north of the 1973 Bosphorus Bridge.

History of Beylerbeyi Palace● Beylerbeyi Palace was commissioned by Sultan

Abdülaziz (1830–1876) and built between 1861 and 1865 as a summer residence and a place to entertain visiting heads of state.

● The palace was the last place of captivity of the deposed sultan Abdulhamid II from 1912 until his death there in 1918

HAGIA SOPHIA

The Byzantine church of High Wisdom of the incarnate Word of God , better

known as Hagia Sophia or Hagia Sophia ( Turkish Ayasofya, Latin Sancta Sophia

or Sancta Sapientia), also known as Church of Holy Wisdom of God or simply

The Great Church was from 360 until 1453 Orthodox cathedral of

Constantinople , except for the period from 1204 to 1261 when it was a Roman

Catholic church , and after the fall of Constantinople was converted into a

mosque , until 1934 and is now a museum ( Turkish Ayasofya Müzesi).