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Topkapı Palace
You could easily spend a day looking around İstanbul's sprawling palace (
Click here
)
;
after all, the Ottoman sultans spent four centuries, from the great days of Süleyman the
Magnificent to later eras, when the empire was declining. As you poke around the palace's
many corners and courtyards, you'll sense the echoes of the princes, courtiers, eunuchs and
concubines who also walked these corridors. To get a feel for 16th-century İstanbul, when
palace life was in full swing, read Orhan Pamuk's novel
My Name is Red
.
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