Topkapı Sarayı (Topkapı Palace) travel articles, Istanbul, Turkey (16)

Up the road from the Hagia Sophia is Topkapi Palace, which was the political centre of the Ottoman Empire and home to Sultans and their families ... more

We remember Turkey in July as hot, dry and dusty. As in all developing countries we have visited we found, in Turkey's larger cities, indications ... more

What is life really like for women in the Islamic East? It appears to be enigmatic, ranging from modernized Western-style dress to body-concealing ... more

There's no second chance to watch the last solar eclipse of the 20th century. And there's no more appropriate place to observe this intriguing phenomenon ... more

The most extravagant stories are told in the scattered chambers of the Topkapi Palace . It was built by Mehmet II in 1459 to mark the ascendance ... more

The minarets and domes of the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofya and the Topkapi Palace rise up in a line together, making it clear how control of these heights ... more

Six years ago, Kristi March and Dave Barnes ran into each other at a bar in San Francisco. Dave was sure they'd never met, until Kristi convinced ... more

The most extravagant stories are told in the scattered chambers of the Topkapi Palace . It was built by Mehmet II in 1459 to mark the ascendance ... more

Rice was the most common--and notoriously brutal--crop in coastal Georgia: Slaves who worked the soggy paddies often caught malaria. Following the ... more

The minarets and domes of the Blue Mosque, Aya Sofya and the Topkapi Palace rise up in a line together, making it clear how control of these heights ... more