Cannon Gate Palace istanbul Tourist Attractions

The Topkapi Sarayi is surrounded by 5km of walls. The series of open courtyards are covered with 50,00 white roses in 1593. The second court enclosed flowerbeds and roses with plane trees and cypresses give shade. In the third court is a collection of fine trees such as magnolias, box, Atlas cedar and Lagerstroemia indica, in the coursework of summer there's scented flowers. The fourth courtyard contains pavilions that are surrounded with flowers, trees and shrubs.

(Local Name: Istanbul - Topkapi Sarayi / Eski Saray) From the Soguk  Cesme Gate in Istanbul they bear half right to the Topkapi Sarayi (Cannon Gate Palace) or Eski Saray (Elderly Palace), the elderly palace-city of the Sultans, built on the Seraglio Point hill, of the five hills of New Rome, on the site of the acropolis and the earliest settlement of Byzantion. This great complex of buildings set in gardens (now open to the public) bounded by battlemented walls and towers, consists of various buildings outside the main precincts (the Archeological Museum, the Mint, the church of Hagia Eirene, etc.) and, beyond these, the Inner Seraglio. Mehmet II built a summer palace here in 1468, and this was enlarged by Sulaeiman