Old City Walls and Dolmabahçe Palace

Below are pictures of the old walls built around Istanbul during the Byzantine era. They are mostly original, but the government has added new stone and mortar to the existing walls while trying to preserve them so it's kind of hard to tell where the original walls are.

 

Below are pictures of Dolamahçe Palace, an incredibly opulent palace built by the Sultans in the 19th century and which we passed just about everyday since it's just south of Beşiktaş and we lived in Ortaköy.

As you'll see in the map above, the purple circle outlines Ortaköy more or less, and the green is Beşiktaş. The yellow star shows Dolmabahçe, so it was visible whenever we drove to/from Ortaköy and from the Bosphorus whenever we took a ferry.