Cistern Art Gallery, also known as Nakilbent Sarnıcı or the Nakkaş Cistern, is a small underground Byzantine cistern in Sultanahmet, Fatih, entered through the Nakkaş premises on Nakilbent Sokak near the Blue Mosque and the former Hippodrome of Constantinople. It is worth visiting not because it rivals Istanbul’s biggest monuments in scale, but because it […]