Topkapi Palace -Istanbul, Turkey
570 reviews
October 29
Beautiful views from palace, the harem is interesting to see, but is hard to find ways, it was even impossible to find a toilet, audio guide is not helpful. Prices for foreigners are high.
November 23
Everyone should see
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August 30, 2023
It's gorgeous! But I don't recomend audio-guide - not so much information, some systems doesn't have headset.
(if you want to get it - you must have documents (one document for one guide!)
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September 19, 2023
Really interesting and beautiful place!
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October 14, 2023
The most beautiful place in Istanbul, very unique palace, can’t even compare it to any other.
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October 9, 2023
Must place to visit
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August 10, 2023
Too expensive
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October 24
A very beautiful, interesting place, definitely worth a visit. The territory is large, you can walk for a long time, including take a snack and be sure to have water. By the way, St. Irene's Cathedral is located on the territory of the complex and its visit is included in the price. A stunning place, makes a strong impression, a sense of eternity, a piece of ancient Rome, especially after the splendor and wealth of the palace.
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June 30
A place with a history, interesting. Many M.B. are familiar from Turkish sermals. In Sultanahmet district near St. Sophia. But the organization is very lame. The Internet on the territory is poorly caught (perhaps because of the crowds of people), there is free wi-fi, but these are tears. It is better to take the audio guide provided by the museum, it is connected to another network and mostly catches, only without headphones this phone is an audio guide, it is inconvenient, and there is very little information. Russian Russian was replaced by some kind of strangely intelligible speech in a language close to, but not Russian, in the part of the exposition. Prices for foreigners are 6 (six, Carl) times higher than for locals, and the locals check the ID for each ticket, they will not be able to slip through. It is better to read about the palace in advance and look cleanly here and not at the tourist peak.
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October 14
It's a wonderful place, buy tickets online, the queue can be long. Conceptually, it is 4 courtyards with a bunch of buildings and between them gardens, fountains, trees. It is very pleasant to walk from building to building, beautiful views of the city. Put in at least 3 hours, or even more. Despite the high price, it's worth it, because you will spend a lot of time there (unlike, for example, St. Sophia, where you will spend a maximum of 40 minutes, and the cost is the same). The only drawback is weak and absent lighting in many halls, of course the exhibits are illuminated, but in some visits it is just dark- if it is sunny and the day is not critical, but in the afternoon I even had to light myself with a flashlight in some places
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November 11
Definitely worth a visit to this complex, although the prices, of course, bite. You can find an excursion ticket, it will be cheaper, but it will still cost a decent amount, at least 54 euros. Inside, the largest and most interesting part is the harem, but there are also beautiful pavilions, including furnished ones. Excellent patterned tiles and mosaics, partially preserved furniture and household items, interesting and unusual plumbing. Additional collections also deserve attention. There are warning signs in places where Islamic religious precepts must be observed, and headscarves are also given free of charge. It's almost impossible to get around everything thoughtfully during the day, only if you run, but the photos will turn out cool.
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November 3
A very majestic palace of the sultans with an attached harem. It is important to take into account that a separate day should be allocated for visiting, since the territory is very large with many buildings and interesting expositions. We were in the area for about 6 hours. There is no restaurant or cafe on site. Tickets can be purchased on the territory of the palace at the ticket office, which is located to the left of the main entrance.
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November 11
A historical place, once the active palace of the Sultans. It is a complex of several structures with its own territory and observation deck. Tickets were expensive in October 2024 (1750 per adult foreign guest).
There are several expositions in the museums of the Topkapi Palace: the museum of clothes, paintings, weapons, jewelry, state gifts, as well as iconic attractions.
I recommend definitely getting to the observation deck, the views are probably the best in Istanbul on the strait
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July 19
After reading the reviews of other visitors, I did not plan to visit the Topkapi Palace. But, as they say, the taste and color. I was pleasantly surprised. I was at the palace at the end of May. I liked it very much. Taking photos and videos in the palace is now allowed. And if you don't want to stand in a long queue, come early for the opening, at 9-10 o'clock.
I really liked the halls with clothes from the time of the sultans - unusual and authentic. A large area for walking, a treasury, an armory, dishes, calligraphy, sacred relics. There is a beautiful exit and a view of the bay.
Many people speak poorly about the audio guide in Russian. I did not take the audio guide, it was enough for me to read the descriptions that are located next to the exhibits and in the halls. But this is if you are familiar with Turkish or English. So I practiced reading in English. As they say, combining the pleasant with the useful.
I highly recommend this place to visit - do not pay attention to the negative reviews. And if it is important for you to always have your own opinion, come, because it is always more interesting to see with your own eyes. At least it's worth seeing once.
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September 17
My dream came true, I finally visited the Topkapi Palace. Of course, I recommend this place to visit, everything is very beautiful in the Palace, the well-kept garden, the view of the Bosphorus is magnificent. In general, you will see everything for yourself.
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August 6
The most famous monument for tourists to visit, but also the most expensive. The price is 1,500 lire per person (it's about $50).
A very beautiful historical place, you can see the harem, the chambers of the sultans and their valides. Take beautiful photos against the background of the Bosphorus. But I still think that the price tag is too high.
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June 28
The museum complex. It consists of a large palace complex, a harem and a museum. A single ticket (1,500 lire in 2024) tickets are not sold separately at the entrance, only there are kiosks near the museum and the harem (500 lire). If you want to see the expositions of the palace complex, then only with a general ticket. In 4.5 hours without a tour, we were able to see only part of it. Very beautiful views, a huge number of exhibits. You can download the audio guide if you have the Internet))).
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August 19
A cool museum! Adults 1500, children 150 liras. There are a lot of different expositions, we were there for 3 hours. There is also a good audio guide with a pleasant voice. The guards also know everything, they will answer all questions.
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October 31
Everything is very beautiful and luxurious. A beautiful park. Clear. Well, as in any palace. The queues in September are huge, but this is quite expected. The price, of course, is also quite high.
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May 27
This is an amazing place where you plunge into history from the inside. I highly recommend visiting the museum in the morning (come to the opening) there are not many people, the opportunity to take a photo without a crowd. Another great idea was that we first visited the harem, and only then went through the palace (again because of the crowd of people. The harem has small rooms and is very stuffy, so the fewer people there are, the more comfortable it is to enjoy the story). The place is definitely worth a visit. Tickets are expensive, it is possible to take an audio guide ( 100 euros deposit or passport)
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July 19
The impressions are the most fabulous and incredible, especially if you plunge into the history that is shown in the historical film "The Magnificent Century", a visit to this palace will be even more unforgettable!!! Very beautiful! The ticket price is very high.
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December 12
I've been dreaming of coming here for 12 years! Since I'm a fan of the series (it's clear which one)))) I was sooo interested! I will not retell the historical facts - those who are interested will see for themselves. I will say about the benefits: the first and most important thing is that there is a public toilet on the territory of the palace! I was in the museum for 4 hours, but in good weather you can go for the whole day. There are benches where you can relax and have a snack (you can take it with you or buy it, but the price, you know, will be for tourists ...) Russian Russian audio guide - they gave out a smartphone as a pledge of a passport, but he did not tell some rooms in Russian. You can download the application, everything is in Russian. Of the disadvantages, the ticket price is cosmic, in terms of rubles, the ticket came out over 5,500 (with a harem). There's nowhere to charge your phone!!! The harem is not completely open.
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August 30
It is very beautiful, interesting and sticky! Beautiful views from the balcony. Inside, there are toilets for free and a snack is paid. It will take three hours, it will be difficult with strollers, there are a lot of steps. The entrance is expensive 1500 liras, for ours it is about 6 thousand
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December 7
It is not worth its price from the word at all. For foreign citizens, the entrance fee (plus the harem) is 1,700 lire, which is about 5,000 rubles. There are various exhibitions in the palace itself (dishes, clothes, calligraphy, weapons), not a very large collection. The most interesting thing is the harem, which can be completed in 30 minutes. Free audio guide - about nothing (several offers per room, not in every room). At the same time, there are crowds of people, it's noisy. It is better not to walk in the rain, because the expositions are in different blocks, between which it is not convenient to run in the rain.
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April 19
Entrance to the Topcaps 1500 lire - general overview + harem. The territory is very beautiful, exhibitions with decorations, dishes, weapons have been made. The views of the Bosphorus from the balconies are charming, the ornaments, tiles, and paintings in the buildings are very beautiful. It is necessary to lay 3-4 hours for inspection.The audio guide is free, all the musical notes are translated into Russian. There are crowds on Saturday and Sunday, you need to go on Monday, he has to work, fewer people. The entrance to the attractions is paid only in lira. Take care of the exchange earlier
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November 22
I was there on an excursion where the palace and the entrance to the harem were included. Of the minuses, the excursions take place during rush hour and for such a large palace, well, 1-1.5 hours of free time is nothing. It also started raining at that time. You need to go there with an excursion and separately yourself on the second day in the morning there are no people yet, there are a lot of museums, there you need to allocate a day for its inspection separately. To see and feel enough, you really need to be there a lot of time
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December 20
Definitely need to see. A big plus is that when you buy a ticket, they give you an audio guide. Not necessarily a tour guide, a group. I was walking alone, and the audio guide told me everything I needed.
The nuance is only the lira. The nearest exchanger is on Sultanahmet, which, in principle, is not far on foot.
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November 5
One of the key attractions. The entrance now costs 1,700 lira per person (that is, about 5,000 rubles), they give an audio guide (but it is not wow). Of course, you need to visit. A magnificent palace and park, where 25 Ottoman sultans (that is, the absolute majority) lived and ruled for 400 years. For a leisurely walk + two queues (for tickets and for an audio guide) it is worth laying about 3-4 hours.
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October 9
The entrance is 1700 liras for an adult, 190 liras for a child, 10 times higher than for locals, the territory is well-groomed, there is nothing to show, a lot of people, did not make an impression, for such money, it is not worth visiting. The Turks were so eager to destroy the Roman heritage that for hundreds of years, they did not really produce anything, a couple of palaces and several mosques, destroying the previous culture
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October 4
One of the most visited places in Istanbul. The price of the entrance ticket for September 2024 is 1,500 Turkish lira. But the palace is worth a look. My examination took more than 5 hours - there is something to see. It is better to buy a ticket online, arrive at 9 a.m., then you will not have to stand in queues, and you can also download an audio guide, it will be easier to navigate the labyrinths of the palace. It is a very atmospheric and interesting place.
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May 13
It's expensive, 1500 rubles for guests is too much. Of course, it is interesting to visit with a guide, go through the guide without queuing, but all this is available to holders of visa and master cards abroad. And that means we carry cash (1500 rubles) to the cashier. From 9-10 is the optimal time, buses with groups are still on the way and you can have time to buy a ticket at the ticket office without queues. Next, a free audio guide turns out to be a pledge according to the passport (whoever warned about this in advance (besides, the audio guide for rent is an Android phone with downloaded audio tracks that are convenient to listen to with headphones - not a word about it)). The staff also helps to install an alternative mobile application on your phone and activate the QR audio guide from the ticket. Only then does a new problem begin - the connection inside the museum (lte or WiFi) is only at the gate, and the tracks swing for a long time. And if the connection is broken, the audio track either did not download, or was duplicated into the phone. There is no indoor connection. There is no WiFi coverage for 1500l. In addition, some audio tracks for the menu in Russian play Polish content (apparently, it looks like one fig to the developers). The narrator himself is not interesting. Information for 1500l is scarce. The numbers of the records (exhibits) inside the desired objects are not visible and are not explicitly marked. Queues: if you are a cunning foreigner with a visa card or a master and walked past the queue to enter with a free pass, then inside you will still be queuing for the necessary exhibits due to poor logistics in building an incoming inspection (visitors move chaotically from object to object inside the museum and create queues). Of course, the place is beautiful, significant, but the organization for 1500 rubles from the nose is disgusting. Our advice: buy a good Russian-speaking guide (not all the guides inside told their groups in Russian interestingly) or, at worst, take a free audio guide in exchange for a passport with headphones (and get ready to look for numbers on the right exhibits and listen to Polish in the tracks).
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December 13
A pleasant place, rich historically.
You can walk for several hours and everything will be interesting.
The views are amazing and the photos are cool))
Be sure to visit this place
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September 4
The most successful excursion, from the point of view of "price / quality" (1,700 lira), the maximum number of expansions, the maximum immersion in the atmosphere of the Ottoman porte.
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April 10
"The Magnificent Century" is a popular Turkish TV series, filming of historical scenes took place in the palace of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, which is now called Topkapi or cannon Gate. I enjoyed looking at the antique weapons encrusted with precious stones. Orders of the Ottoman Empire and gifts from envoys of other states, including the Russian state. There are 4 courtyards on the territory of the palace park. Each one has unique trees, the age is measured in hundreds of years. When we went to Hagia Sophia the day before, I was very sorry that I did not take the audio guide. And on the way to Topkapi I reminded my wife to buy it. It turned out that there is an audio guide in the Sultan's Palace, but it is very strange. You make the payment, leave your passport as a deposit and receive a small box. She's not wearing headphones. And in one of the pavilions, your Russian audio guide independently changes the language to Serbian. And then - back. It happened several times and not only for me. So I recommend that you think before buying this service. It is better to allocate a whole day to inspect the entire Topkapi. Take into account its huge territory, the queue at the entrance and security checkpoints.
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November 12
The first thing that surprised me was the price of an entrance ticket - 1,700 lira per person. The two of us go for almost 10 minutes. And that's not all. If you want to see the harem room inside, then get ready to give another 600 lire per person. The territory is large, there are a lot of people, the audio guide sometimes speaks a foreign language, although you exhibit Russian. In general, blurred sensations
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January 20
It's a beautiful place, for 2024 the entrance to the museum is +-50$, but it's worth it. It is very beautiful inside, there are many places to walk. It is better not to take an excursion, but to go yourself, because there are not particularly queues (and individual guides are afraid of them), and it takes a lot of time to see everything. It takes about five hours in total. But we must remember that the palace is open until 3-4 days, because there is no electricity and only daylight. It's a cool place, I highly recommend it
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August 2
Six hours was not enough for me to inspect everything. I left Topkapi only because my group of friends was waiting for me in a cafe. An extraordinary place, no more than a thousand and a half lire spent on a ticket. With this ticket, you can explore Topkapi with a harem and Aya Irina. Be sure to take an audio guide - without it, I definitely would not have known that I saw the staff of Moses, the footprint of the Prophet Muhammad and many other interesting things. The story is in every stone
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July 12
If you are in Istanbul, be sure to visit this place. The inspection will take at least 4 hours. There is a park on site where you can relax from the hustle and bustle of the city. The balcony offers a magnificent view of the Bosphorus. Ayia Irina has been preserved since the time of Byzantium, it is admirable. You can pay for admission in euros or in lira. I recommend.
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March 3
The beauty of the East) Ornaments, columns, carvings, garden. Jewelry on weapons, helmets, sultan gloves. Magnificent view of the Bosphorus from the terraces. Victory pavilions and a mysterious harem. With a huge number of rooms, passages, nooks and crannies and, in my opinion, without a single tree. But there are plenty of them in the decorations of the state halls.
Tickets, my friends, we took for 1,500 lira (4,500 re) - the palace itself, the cathedral of Irina, the harem. We took an audio guide (for free). He's not much use, just a couple of sentences. It is not very convenient to use.So we were guided by English inscriptions. I finished reading about the harem on the Internet in the evening))
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August 11
Very beautiful views in this park, you can sit on a bench to relax, there are shops nearby. Unfortunately, there is nothing but beautiful views, as a stop and on the way further to the embankment will go.
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October 9
Hi!
Well, I'm sorry, this is an iconic place!
And not only for fans of the Magnificent Century series, but also for all history lovers and other onlookers!
Here, at one time, the history of the Mediterranean was created and not only!
I recommend you to visit.
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December 1
A beautiful and interesting place, if you go with a guide, you will pass without waiting in line... And so there are very long queues to get inside, however, as well as to all historical places, so plan ahead, you won't get through everything in a couple of hours, take food and water with you. And keep in mind that there are museums inside the palace where you need additional rest
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October 20
It's amazing from the outside, inside there are just showcases with various exhibits, it's a pity that the atmosphere of the palace itself is not reproduced at least approximately. The tickets are super expensive, and they also ask for a passport as a deposit for the audio guide.
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July 12
Entry for June 2024 cost 1,500 TL, which is a lot.
But if you still accept it and go, then you will not regret it. Firstly, the volume is impressive, you can walk at least all day. Secondly, the truth is surprising, a real immersion in the eastern Ottoman culture through clothes, interiors and jewelry. And finally, great views of Istanbul and the strait. I recommend
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November 5
The beauty and grandeur of the palace are indescribable, we really enjoyed walking there, it was very interesting to plunge into the history of Turkey. Come, you won't regret it
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July 20
The entrance is very expensive. 1500 liras. It's so interesting and the park is beautiful. Immersion in history. Especially the church of St. Irene. Hyurem Sultan lived here 🕌
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November 10
A beautiful, historical place. Important rooms such as the Sultan's bedroom and the Hurrem are not shown. The ticket is expensive. The audio guide is not for all expositions
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November 25
A delightful place, the main thing is to go through this palace with a good guide who will tell you the story in an interesting and exciting way
We were lucky in this regard
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October 22
The entrance ticket to the harem is very expensive+Top caps + Aya Irina costs 1,700 liras (October 2024) In fact, it's like our Kremlin, only 5 times more expensive. If you are not fans of Turkish TV series, then there is no point in going. There are a lot of people, nothing is clear. We took an audio guide (for free, but a passport or 100 bucks as a deposit), but the audio guide told half of the halls in Turkish. And in general, there were difficulties with him. So if you want to look, go ahead. There is nothing to do there for general development.
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November 18
A good place to explore Turkey! For tourists, I recommend coming to the opening at the ticket office and there is no queue at the entrance. We were on Saturday, 11/16/24. They passed freely. At 13:00 in the afternoon, there were already very long queues. The entrance is not cheap 1700 Turkish lira, they paid with a card and wrote off 5400 rubles of the Russian Federation!
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