Stanley at Topkapi

Hannah and Cole,

Stanley was with us at the Topkapi Palace yesterday.

It was a BIG place and we only showed a few pictures yesterday. The palace is where the king (called the Sultan) of the Ottoman empire lived. It was a palace from the early 1500s (about 20 years after Columbus discovered America), until 1922 when it was turned into a museum.

There was a LOT to see, and we only saw part of it. There were jewels, swords,  and clothes from that whole time period when this was a palace. They even had a suit of armor that one of the Sultans wore!

Maybe your mom remembers some of the mosaic tile buildings we saw in Iran. A lot of the decorations looked like that.

There is a lot of information about this famous palace here.