GRAND COVERED BAZAAR

The great covered Bazaar of Istanbul, the Kapali Çarsi, is not simply a complex of buildings but a real city covered by hemispheric domes with its streets, its small squares surrounded by porticoes, its entrances (18 in all), 5 mosques, 6 fountains. Its 200,000 square meters make it one of the largest souks in the world. In Byzantine times venders already set up their stalls here. Then in 1461 Mohammed the Conqueror built the first covered bazaar in wood which was destroyed by fire more than once until it was finally rebuilt in stone.

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