Special Offer: Extended Topkapi Palace and Harem Tour

Información

Topkapi Palace is as mysterious as it is beautiful: With its long history of sultans, eunuchs and concubines, it can seem impenetrable to those without intimate knowledge of Byzantine art and history. But it doesn’t need to be.
Explore Topkapi Palace with an expert local tour guide, hand-chosen for their passion, storytelling abilities and English-language skills. Traveling in a small group of 15 people or fewer, you’ll find your guide easy to hear and interact with: A good thing too, since it’s the history that makes Topkapi Palace such a wonderful visit.

You’ll tour the best sights of the palace, including areas only recently opened to the public. Like the palace kitchen, where up to 800 cooks dished up 6,000 meals a day during busy periods. Or the foot soldiers barracks, where a beautiful pipe room, private baths and the ornate prayer room may convince you to join their ranks.

Meeting/pick-up point: This tour meets in the in front of the entrance of Hagia Irene Church, located inside the Topkapi Palace's first courtyard. Access to this area does not require a ticket. You can access this courtyard both from the Topkapi Palace gate located to the right of the main entrance to Hagia Sophia, and through the gate located next the the Istanbul Archeological Museum.
Duration: 3 hours.
Start/opening time: At 10am.
-End/closing time: The tour ends at 1pm, inside the Palace Walls.
Languages:English.
Others: Note that guides are not allowed to give explanations inside some of the rooms of the Palace, such as the treasury room for example. In these cases the guide will give you the information from outside and let you explore the room at your own pace. The guide will however remain with you throughout the rest of the tour. Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate customers with wheelchairs, strollers and baby carriages.