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Topkapi Palace - Museum-park
You won’t regret to spend a couple of days in Istanbul if you decide to visit a huge and magnificent palace of Sultans.
Topkapi Palace is a museum. That’s true, but still it’s not correct enough. Topkapi is a splendid park, and that is true, but partially. Is Topkapi a nice Palace? Of course it is. The right way to describe Topkapi Palace is as a small settlement of a size of an area of a European city. It consists of beautiful palaces, fantastic museums and nice parks. Everyone who goes to Istanbul should visit Topkapi Palace. It’s impossible to see it all for just one day! That’s why we highly recommend you to devote 2 days for Topkapi Palace to oversee:
Holy relics
Here you can find rain cavities that were brought from Kaab, a holy place for Muslims, and sabers of four caliphs of Mohammed. There is also a Mohammed’s jacket, his saber, flag and arrows, foot trace of the prophet, a tooth, a beard hair and a letter.
Royal library
This is a monument of year 1719. Only marble was used for it’s building.
Treasury room
Here are displayed the most rare jewelry, made by royal jewelry craftsmen. Here you can see orders and caskets decorated with emerald, diamonds and sapphire; weapons decorated with the most expensive gems and materials. You can see a throne made of ivory in the treasury room. There is also a collection of candlesticks and candelabrum made of gold; silver and golden sets of glasses; music boxes made of ivory by Indian craftsmen; weapons decorated with precious gems; cane decorated with precious gems that was a gift of the German Emperor William II; "Kasikci diamond", a precious gem covered with 49 diamonds that has 86 carat.
Sultan thrones
There is the throne of sultan Mahmud the First in Topkapi that he has got as a gift from Persian Shah Nadir. The throne is covered with pure gold and decorated with 25 000 precious pearls. You can also see the remainings of baptized St. John, rosary, decorated tobacco cases, writing materials, daggers, things made of ivory and ceramics, decorated with precious gems.
Harem and armor room
Here you will see the sabers of Fatah Conqueror, who conquered Constantinople, and Mohave, one of the Islam commanders; armor of padishah Selim Yavuz; pole-axes of executors, samurai armor, weapons of Turkish Amazon.
Here we have described for you just a tiny part of Topkapi treasures. There are things to see in Topkapi Palace. Welcome to Istanbul hotels near Topkapi!
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