Private Edirne Tour From Istanbul

Private Edirne Tour From Istanbul

Tour Highlights :
You will be picked up from your hotel at 08:30 / 08:30 then drive to Edirne. Where we will visit 2. capital city of Ottoman Empire. The tour is private tour and your guide will inform you about Edirne on the way.
Once we arrive in Edirne, we wil visit Old Mosque, Uc Serefeli Mosque, Selimiye Mosque, Semiz Ali Pasha Arasta Bazaar, Beyazit Complex and more. We will have lunch in a local restaurant.
At the ne dof the tour, we will drive back to Istanbul.

Private Edirne Tour Itinerary
Meal : Lunch
08:30 am – You will be picked up from your hotel for private Edirne Tour from Istanbul.
After pick up we will drive to Edrine and visiting;

Old Mosque, was built between 1402-14. It was built of cut stone and brick  and decoreted with fine white marble portal and decorative calligraphy on pillars and interior walls.

Semiz Ali Pasa Arasta Bazaar is also the work of Sinan. Completed in 1589, it is a long tunnel-like building with shops on both sides.Here you may buy one of Edirne’s specialities, soap shaped like fruit or vegetables.

Üç Serefeli Mosque, the name of the mosque derived from the three balconies on the southeast minaret.Each balcony is reached by a separate stairway.each minarets are decoreted by different decorative tile designs.  In the fifteenth century, The minarets were the most important development in the structure of the mosque

Beyazit Complex is the largest in Edirne, the complex had a mosque and an hospital which was famous for the skill of its surgeons.In the octogonal, domed timarhane the insane were treated by musical therapy.

Selimiye Mosque was ordered by Selim II and built between 1566 and 1574 by Sinan. It was the masterpiece of Sinan’s old age. The symmetrical design strongly emphasised by the four minarets and the soaring rise of the central dome.

Kule Kapisi (Tower Gate) is all that remains of the tower which once protected the principal gate of the citadel.It was rebuilt between 1118 and 1843 by John Comnenus II as part of his repair of the Hadrianic defensive system.
Meric bridge (New Bridge) is located on the junction of Meric and Arda rivers.

At the end of the Edirne Tour, drive back to Istanbul and you will be dropped off your hotel.