{"id":47,"date":"2019-10-01T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site143.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/10\/01\/basilica-cistern\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T16:23:27","slug":"basilica-cistern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/2019\/10\/01\/basilica-cistern\/","title":{"rendered":"Basilica Cistern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2019\/10\/Basilica-Cistern-.jpg\" alt=\"Basilica Cistern \" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2019\/10\/Basilica-Cistern-.jpg 1500w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2019\/10\/Basilica-Cistern--300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2019\/10\/Basilica-Cistern--768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2019\/10\/Basilica-Cistern--1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basilica Cistern<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Basilica Cistern (Alemdar Mh., Yerebatan Cd. 1\/3, 34410 Fatih\/\u0130stanbul) &#8212;<\/strong> One of the magnificent ancient buildings of \u0130stanbul is the Basilica Cistern located in the southwest of Hagia Sofia. Constructed for Justinianus I, the Byzantium Emperor (527-565), this big underground water reservoir is called as \u201cYerebatan Cistern\u201d among the public because of the underground marble columns. As there used to be a basilica in the place of the cistern, it is also called Basilica Cistern.<\/p>\n<p>This mysterious venue is an integral part of the Istanbul itineraries and has been visited -among others- by the US former President Bill Clinton, Wim Kok the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Lamberto Dini, Former Minister of foreign Affairs of Italy, G\u00f6ran Persson, Former Prime Minister of Sweden and Thomas Klestil, Former prime Minister of Austria until today. Currently operated by K\u00fclt\u00fcr A.\u015e. (Culture Co.), one of the affiliates of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, the Basilica Cistern functions as a museum and is the home for many national and international events<\/p>\n<p>Admission: 20 TL (foreign adult), 10 TL (local adult), 5 TL (student) . Hours: 9:00 am \u2013 6:30 pm (daily).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basilica Cistern (Alemdar Mh., Yerebatan Cd. 1\/3, 34410 Fatih\/\u0130stanbul) &#8212; One of the magnificent ancient buildings of \u0130stanbul is the Basilica Cistern located in the southwest of Hagia Sofia. Constructed for Justinianus I, the Byzantium Emperor (527-565), this big underground water reservoir is called as \u201cYerebatan Cistern\u201d among the public because of the underground marble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do","category-turkey-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}