It is the most tourist area of Istanbul, outlining the colorful history of Istanbul in a narrow area with its Byzantine, Ottoman and Republican period monuments and structures. 12 in the Byzantine era. the Hippodrome, which was the heart of the city until the end of the century, was built on an area of 100,000 m 2, stretching from the Hippodrome to the Sea of Marmara, the Great Palace, Hagia Sophia and Hagia Eufemia churches, large water cisterns built to meet the city’s water needs, were here. 12. after the century, when the Great Palace was replaced by the Blakhernai Palace near the Golden Horn, its importance and glory decreased, the district was destroyed by the Latin invasion of Istanbul in the 13th century. it was burned down in the century. After conquering Istanbul, the phrase “spiders have webbed at the gate of the Kaiser’s Palace”, which the Conqueror said in the face of the landscape he saw, is famous. After the conquest of Istanbul and the Sultan’s settlement of Topkapi Palace, the area that began to gain importance again is full of ruins
