Category
Palace
7 places
- Topkapı PalaceSeat of Ottoman sultans for four centuries, a city of courtyards above the meeting of two seas.UNESCOPalace
- Buckingham PalaceThe monarch's official London residence, with the changing of the guard outside and state rooms open in summer.Palace
- Dolmabahçe PalaceThe Ottoman answer to Versailles, where the empire spent its last treasury and Atatürk died in 1938.Palace
- Hampton Court PalaceHenry VIII's riverside palace upstream from the city, half Tudor and half baroque, with a maze in the gardens.Palace
- Kensington PalaceA working royal residence in Kensington Gardens, with state apartments and court dress on show.Palace
- Beylerbeyi PalaceThe sultans' summer residence on the Asian shore, where Empress Eugénie was received in 1869.Palace
- Tekfur PalaceThe only substantially intact Byzantine palace left in the city, wedged into the land walls.Palace