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Basilica Cistern
İstanbul's largest surviving Byzantine cistern (
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provides cool relief on a hot
day. Walking between the pillars on raised wooden platforms, you'll feel water dripping
from the vaulted ceiling and see ghostly carp patrolling the water. A scholar rediscovered
the cistern in 1545, after locals told him they could miraculously obtain water (and even
catch fish) by lowering buckets into a dark space below their basement floors.
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