Istanbul Miniaturk Full day
Istanbul, Turkey
Trip Type: Attraction Tickets
Duration: 8 hours
By visiting Miniaturk you will have the chance to see entire Turkey in a single day. Our licensed and experienced tour guide will guide you deep inside the historical Mosques and churches of İstanbul, and a delicious lunch is waiting for you after this historical trip
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By visiting Miniaturk you will have the chance to see entire Turkey in a single day. Our licensed and experienced tour guide will guide you deep inside the historical Mosques and churches of İstanbul, and a delicious lunch is waiting for you after this historical tripMiniaturk Laid foundation on 2001, the very first miniature park, established on 60.000 sqm area in total. Models of 1/25 scales of selected works of Turkish and Ottoman geographies are exhibited in Miniatürk where 126 models, including 59 ones from Istanbul, 55 from Anatolia and 12 from the Ottoman geography that remains outside the territorial boundaries of Turkey today, are shown.
The park combines a number of cultural and civilization traces including without limited to Hagia Sophia, Selimiye, Rumeli Hisarı, Galata Tower, Safranbolu Houses, Sümeli Monastery, Dome of the Rock, Mount Nemrut reminiscent, and the Temple of Artemisia, Halicarnassus Mausoleum, Ecyad Tower that have not survived until today have been re-made.
St. Anthony of Padua Church alternatively known as the Sant'Antonio di Padova is a basilica and the largest church of the Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul. Pope John XXIII preached in this church for 10 years, when he was the Vatican's ambassador to Turkey before being elected as pope. He is known in Turkey with the nickname "The Turkish Pope" because of his fluent Turkish and his often expressed love for Turkey and the city of Istanbul.
The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman (Süleyman the Magnificent), "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan" The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1558.
Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, facing Hagia Sophia, famous with its blue İznik tiles and unique with 6 minarets, built in the name of Sultan Ahmet.
Hagia Sophia is a former Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum .From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture" It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
The park combines a number of cultural and civilization traces including without limited to Hagia Sophia, Selimiye, Rumeli Hisarı, Galata Tower, Safranbolu Houses, Sümeli Monastery, Dome of the Rock, Mount Nemrut reminiscent, and the Temple of Artemisia, Halicarnassus Mausoleum, Ecyad Tower that have not survived until today have been re-made.
St. Anthony of Padua Church alternatively known as the Sant'Antonio di Padova is a basilica and the largest church of the Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul. Pope John XXIII preached in this church for 10 years, when he was the Vatican's ambassador to Turkey before being elected as pope. He is known in Turkey with the nickname "The Turkish Pope" because of his fluent Turkish and his often expressed love for Turkey and the city of Istanbul.
The Süleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman (Süleyman the Magnificent), "was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of the architectural genius of Mimar Sinan" The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1558.
Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, facing Hagia Sophia, famous with its blue İznik tiles and unique with 6 minarets, built in the name of Sultan Ahmet.
Hagia Sophia is a former Christian patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum .From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire. The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized and opened as a museum on 1 February 1935. Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture" It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
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