Tekfur Sarayi

Exterior: Palace Walls

Title Variant
Palace of the Porphyrogenitus
Date

13th century

Geographic Coordinates
41.033877, 28.940275

Work Type

Notes

This palace was built towards the end of the Byzantine era and sustained considerable damage in the seige of 1453 due to its close proximity to the Theodosian Walls.

Culture

Subject

Byzantine (architecture)
Turkish (architecture)
Image Date
July, 2014
Image Source

Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

Photographer