Saturday 16 February 2013

Basilica Cistern Istanbul, Turkey



Basilica Cistern Istanbul



Istanbul to eighty-two feet is a 450 feet long, 213 feet wide, the former royal reservoir. The The engineering feat Byzantine architectural ruins of the 336 does not match the column reservoir built by Constantine the Great in the 4th century AD, who conquered

Constantinople fell in 1453, the Ottoman Empire, the water tank is forgotten, in addition to the residents sitting at the top of their house. Then looking for Byzantine antiques by the French in 1545, it briefly re-introduced into their daily lives, but it fell into disrepair and not used again until 1987, when it was as a tourist attraction re-opened.

Stone Medusa head from the site of an ancient pagan stolen, used in construction, is placed in a disrespectful fashion upside and mark in their right builders in one of the Christian faith.

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