Nos APAIXONAMOS por essa Cidade | PRIMEIRA IMPRESSÕES de ISTAMBUL, Turquia 🇹🇷

Nos APAIXONAMOS por essa Cidade | PRIMEIRA IMPRESSÕES de ISTAMBUL, Turquia 🇹🇷

This city has been considered the capital of the world, it’s in the top 10 cities that receive the most tourists. And maybe you’ve heard of another name it had, like Constantinople? Welcome to Istanbul! We are starting our series here in Turkey, our 15th country.

In the last few months, we have been traveling through Eastern Europe, so basically everywhere. that we used to pass had references to the Turks. And that sparked our curiosity to come and see what Turkey is like. And specifically talking about Istanbul, it’s a city unlike anything we’ve ever seen.

The word that has defined it for us is “a lot.” There are a lot of people. That’s a lot of shops. it’s very old and very beautiful. So in today’s video, we’re going to take a stroll around here and show what there is to do in this incredible city.

And we’re starting the video today at Sultanahmet Square, which is in the middle of two main things here, the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque, which is huge! And this joy? Are you happy to see the Blue Mosque? Wow, it is very beautiful. It’s huge as well. No, this square is absurd.

In addition to the two mosques, there are other domes around that we don’t exactly know what they are. This one here is a bathhouse, right? Incredible! And let’s enter the Blue Mosque. You will certainly hear a lot about the mosques in Istanbul because there are more than 3,000 here? More than 3,000 mosques.

More than 3,000 mosques, that’s a lot of mosques. And one of the points worth mentioning is that here in Turkey, the population is predominantly Muslim and Islamic. So for Bia to enter the mosque, she needs to cover her hair. But it’s very big, it’s absurd.

And the day is very beautiful today, so I don’t know if the blue or the marble shines more, but it looks very beautiful. It’s nice that if you don’t have a scarf to cover your head, they lend you one here. My God, it’s huge. Wow, the ceiling is all detailed. Oh my God.

It’s so intricate. It’s absurd. I had never noticed, thought about how this huge chandelier here was attached. but there is a lot of current coming down from above. It is very large. I think grandiose is the word.

And the reason it is called the Blue Mosque is because several of the tiles they used to decorate the ceiling have blue details. But there is much more color than blue. I was expecting much more blue. But it’s absurd. There are several shades of blue, some lighter ones too.

What I find incredible is that everything is very new. I think we watched the video a few months ago, years ago, and everything was always under renovation. But apparently the renovation is almost finished. There were some things covered up and all, but everything else looks very new, very new.

So it was recently renovated. And now, I think January 2024, wow, the entire ceiling is practically uncovered. A big difference from mosques compared to other churches we have visited, like the Christian ones, the Orthodox, Catholics, is that there are no images of saints, no images of humans, but patterns, inscriptions, flowers.

There is not a corner of this mosque that is not decorated. Everything is absurdly painted. If it’s not painted, it’s a very beautiful marble stone. Wow, yes. Incredible. And from the outside, I think what stands out the most is the huge dome here, that one there. is the main one.

The architecture they used were semi-domes that support this main dome. So there’s this one here, then we see that there are half-domes around here and underneath them there are more domes. Half-domes, right? Yes. I always thought it was divided, you know, that there would be smaller rooms, but no, Yes, it is.

It’s all just one thing. Just one thing. Absurd. So it’s very interesting, not only the decoration, but the architecture. The engineering of the architecture here, right? This one maybe hasn’t been renovated, because it has some slightly more worn marks, some parts maybe a little more damp, but still very beautiful.

Perhaps one that is not renewed. And giving a historical context here, this mosque is from the 17th century, so it was built during the time of the Ottoman Empire and it stands out a lot because it has six minarets, which are those pointed towers found in mosques.

And the minarets are used to call the faithful to prayer and also proclaim some words in relation to the greatness of God, of Allah in this case. In the past, there was a person who would climb up to the top, I don’t know if they would go up to the third floor there

But it was a person who would go up there to make the call to prayer Nowadays, there are loudspeakers Imagine, you have to climb all the stairs and they… Five times a day They do it five times a day, even at night Imagine the cold The lighting in this thing Yes

And as we were saying, here the Blue Mosque has six minarets. The usual number is two to four. Hagia Sophia has four minarets, and this one has six. There are some legends that try to explain why there are six here. One of them is that when the sultan commissioned this mosque.

He said he wanted a golden minaret that reads like this, “Altin” probably the pronunciation is all wrong, but you guys overlook it and the architect understood “Alti”, which means six so when he went to build the mosque, he put six minarets instead of one golden minaret

I find it a bit difficult, but it’s a good story. I like this story! It’s very similar. When I saw the story, I said, but you’re saying two identical words. No, it’s different. But six looks nice. So, is this the first time you’ve been in a mosque? What did you think?

Wow, I found it absurd. After visiting 7,000 churches. I have the impression that every church I enter leaves me amazed, but here it was so much. decoration, there were so many designs, it was so ornate. Wow, absurd. And it’s also very large. Yeah… I don’t even know the height of the main dome.

Maybe 53 meters. It’s absurd. It’s grandiose is the word. Grandiose. And a curiosity that is here at the door is that there is a chain. I imagine they left it for historical reasons. Only the sultan was allowed to enter this part on horseback.

So the chain would force him to bow as he entered the mosque to maintain his humility. And right here at the exit of the Blue Mosque, we already reach the next tourist spot here in Istanbul, which is the Hippodrome. Here, in fact, you have to use more imagination than anything else,

Because this is where the hippodrome was located back when Istanbul was called Constantinople. Nowadays, there is nothing left except for some points that are in the same place where the hippodrome used to be. Let’s go to the first one, which is a very beautiful fountain.

And this one behind me is the German Fountain. You can see. Looks German. Looks very German. Wow, I think so too. But anyway, it was a gift from the then Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, around the year

In 1899, because they wanted to strengthen ties, well, do business, so the Kaiser ended up sending, building this fountain in Germany and sending it here, where it was finished in 1901.

And in place of this fountain, at the time of the hippodrome, there was the gate, which was located in the front, and the end of the hippodrome is up front, where the obelisk is. And talking a little more about the hippodrome, so it is

From the time of Constantinople, it was the time of the Byzantines, so they held chariot races, with horses and such, and when the Ottoman Empire took over this whole region, that wasn’t really their style there, so they ended up destroying everything

That was here, so the stands, everything that was part of the hippodrome itself, and they used this area to train the horses in the end. And right here at the end, we have the Egyptian obelisk, the fountain back there was a gift from the Germans

So maybe this one was a gift from the Egyptians? No, it was stolen in the 4th century almost everything was meant to be part of the Roman Empire, so they brought it it must have been difficult to steal something like that it was very heavy, it weighed many tons

It was much larger than this one, so much so that it was on a pedestal she was cut and it is also estimated that she lost several pieces during transportation they cut her in Egypt, brought her through the Nile until she arrived here, in Constantinople she had quite a journey

Indeed, they were very motivated to bring this thing here and what I find funny is that people from that time didn’t have much fear of curses, right? Right, so.. Like, you’re going to steal something like this from Egypt. And this here is the oldest thing you’ll find here in Istanbul.

It was built by the Pharaoh in 1500 BC. Its base is Roman, so there are several people here. Some you can see holding some instruments and from what we were seeing, the one in the middle here is the emperor.

He is holding a laurel wreath that symbolizes a crowd and he is rewarding the person. who won the chariot race. Remembering that this was a hippodrome, so there is this link between the hippodrome and the pedestal. We are here in front of the Hagia Sophia Mosque And it has a very unusual history

It was built in the 6th century during the time of the Byzantine Empire to be an Orthodox church But ten centuries later, when it was taken over by the Ottoman Empire it became a mosque Centuries and centuries later, around 1930 it was turned into a museum

And in 2020 it became a mosque again. It’s a church-slash-mosque that has been through a lot, so… Incredible! And in this transition from being a church to a mosque, well, when it was a church, there are several saints, there are several very beautiful mosaics inside, as we mentioned.

In Islam, you do not worship saints or faces of men, like that. So what happened is that today where the mosaics were, they covered them up. And maybe you are thinking, “oh, but it’s a mosque named after a saint,” but

In fact, the translation of Santa Sofia is Holy Wisdom, so it is sacred wisdom. And that’s why the Ottomans kept her name as Santa Sofia, Hagia Sophia, in their language and it didn’t have to change.

But you must be wondering, wow, why are you talking so much and not going in there and showing what it’s like inside? So, there is a catch, we arrived a week late here in Istanbul, when it was free to enter.

Starting last week, the price changed and it costs 50 euros for both of us to enter. and I think talking a little more about the context, about what we are seeing in Turkey in these three, four days that we are here

Is that everything is very different, inflation in Turkey has reached 60% in 2023. so the price of everything we saw in videos, photos from months ago, has changed a lot and this has caused the constant price change of several things here this impacts both food, accommodation, you name it

At the end of last year, Turkey passed a law that practically makes it unfeasible for almost all Airbnbs to operate several Airbnbs that we had already booked were canceled, we had to reschedule others and we talk a lot about what impacts us, impacts tourism

I think that really in people’s daily lives the impact is much greater than that so really in the food, in the housing here in the city has impacted a lot so even the Airbnb law was precisely to contain inflation in property prices

And we came to a place where we received a recommendation and it seems very local, it is in a very parallel little street there. Very hidden. And so, it’s already half the price of what we had seen in other places closer by to the tourist area, so quite a difference.

We walked up two blocks and it was half the price. From a place that is very tiny. So there’s a little table, me here, and Bia. There’s a table, behind her and a stove next to it. But the kebabs that come out of here are impressive.

By the time we got in here, it was already around 3:00. The crowd here is quite active. There are a lot of people outside asking for food and taking it home. We got two kebabs. There’s a lot of cilantro, onion, lettuce.

There are several things here that I filmed, but I don’t remember anymore. And we got two flavors. We got the meat one, this one is spicy, and Bia’s is not. And let’s see. Oh, it’s warm. The meat seasoning is very mild.

I think it’s even less than what we were used to in Bulgaria. But it’s very tasty, it’s very juicy. And take a bite of this one so we can see. Mmm, bell pepper. Bell pepper? Top! Is it very tender? Very juicy.

I was taking a bite like this, then I looked to the side like this. There were a lot of people looking and staring. There were a lot of people looking, staring, looking like that. I said, there’s something wrong, I’m doing something.

Then he said, the guy came here and said, no, excuse me for a moment. Let me show you how it’s done. Mm-hmm. Very good, right? Wonderful. I don’t even like bell peppers, but I found this one to be really good. Wow, it’s really good. Wow, that was really good, I liked it!

Incredibly good! And one thing you will see a lot is exchange houses. Of all possible currencies. And obviously their conversion rate is quite high. At the restaurant where we just ate, we paid in cash. Because not all restaurants accept cards, especially the smaller ones. We always carry some cash with us

Because we know that if we go to a more local restaurant, some local shop, we won’t be able to pay by card. But in general, here in Istanbul, the Wise card has been working very well, so we have been using it to eat at restaurants, buy something, well, at the market, apps, etc.

Buying a metro ticket. Buying the subway ticket, we also used it, so yeah, it’s good to have some cash, especially if you’re going to those places that don’t accept cards. In several places here in Istanbul, there are these carts that sell this bread, which is round,

And this one even has a little oven to heat it up. We’re going to get one with Nutella. Just one? Just one. We got this simit, it looks like a little bread, like a bagel. But it’s full of sesame seeds. And obviously this one is with Nutella and it’s a little warm.

This is very good here. Good? Very good. It is very crunchy on the outside. and on the inside, it is very soft and with Nutella, it’s perfect! We are actually behind a mosque. It’s a very common sound here in Istanbul because there are 3,000 mosques.

What they are saying on the loudspeaker, what they are singing now, is inviting people to prayer. And also speaking words of greatness of God, of Allah in this case. they sing, share some facts, and even invite everyone to join the prayer.

And now we are arriving at the places that have been elected as the most visited place in the world. In the whole world, right? By tourists, with 90 million people per year, which is the Grand Bazaar. And here in the structure, it even has the year it was built, 1461.

So it is one of the oldest buildings that exist here. And this market, the Grand Bazaar, is so famous because it is one of the covered shopping malls oldest in the world, it was built in the 15th century and the city of Istanbul is divided between the European continent and the Asian continent.

So you can imagine why it was a very important city for trade. Until today, our lady, fabrics, spices, in short, trade was booming here. Everything that had to reach Europe kind of passed through here. Even Napoleon once said that if the world came together and became one, Istanbul would be

The capital given its geographical position, both in Europe, Asia, Africa, and so on. The position of Istanbul is very privileged. And that’s why the Grand Bazaar is so well-known, because everything that passed through Istanbul was probably sold here and still is today. Everything is sold here.

So if you want jewelry, fake clothes, food, sweets, spices, there’s a lot. And there’s a lot of things and a lot of people. Opening a parenthesis, one of the things Istanbul is famous for, besides all that we

Have talked about in terms of tourism, is that Istanbul is also one of the capitals for people who come to have hair implant surgery. So we see people passing by with banners all the time, because they came here for the transplant.

So, if I’m not mistaken, it’s one of the cheapest places in the world for you to do this. Yes, here in Turkey is quite famous for medical tourism. Many people come for hair transplants, many people come for that nose surgery,

To do things with their hair, because it’s much cheaper than in the United States. So, like, getting these extensions… Hair extensions! …have also heard of it. So, a different kind of tourism. Here there are over 4,000 shops, if I’m not mistaken. Yes, 60 streets. There are 60 streets inside this mall.

Wow, and the ceiling here is very beautiful, it’s all restored, brand new. Yeah, so for a place that’s almost 600 years old. Wow, look at this, beautiful, right? Very beautiful. Incredible. Wow, a lot of Evil Eye, I mean… So, here comes another story. The Evil Eye is not Greek, it’s Turkish.

Here they call it the cheapest life insurance in Turkey. They give a Greek eye to the child when they are young. So it already wards off the evil eye, protects the house, protects everything. And one of the things you can notice from here is that nothing has a price. Yes. Nothing.

If it’s something with a price, they are usually very specific things. Oh, the shirt is 25 euros. Yeah, it is. Exactly. Pomegranate Tea Rose Tea wow, the smell is really good. This is like a cream a bit of cream with pistachio. Nutella, Snickers, pistachio, with honey, pomegranate, almond. It’s almond with fake gold.

She loves pistachios. You can taste it, behind you. The first one on the right, it’s pistachio with sesame oil, and this one is regular pistachio, but without sugar. Bye, bye. Yesss! Finally! We already wanted to buy, so we were just waiting to find someone to say “let’s go”.

And this uncle was very friendly, he said, “Do you want to try this?” He really didn’t stop cutting things. Wow, we ate more than we bought basically. 220 liras for this little package with 300 grams of sweets. Wow, and there’s a lot here! There’s plenty, it’s quite tasty. Wow, so cool!

He was explaining what it was with pistachio and all and we were kind of hesitant to enter a store like this because nothing has a price here, right? So, it was even written, right? Yeah, but you saw how it works, right? Like, they offer you one on the street

And he says, no, but come here, let me explain this to you he gave us a little tea the tea was really good Wow, the tea was sensational. The tea was really good. Then he started cutting a bunch from here, right? Turkish delight, pistachio. And this one here. and various types of pistachios

And probably this seed is from here this other one is from here And we basically got Turkish Delight. It’s like a jelly, a gum. In a cube format. And there are several flavors, we got a mixed one, I think. And there was the plain version and the pistachio version that we got.

And another one that is a fancier Turkish Delight, maybe. Which has a pistachio paste inside and pistachio on the outside. And it was very good, that was the one we tried, right? Sensational. One of the most incredible things we saw there is really a girl, she was

Making the rug by hand there, weaving and all. And we asked the guy, he said, no, man, it takes a year for her to finish. a little rug like this, but very few are made manually here in Turkey. Nowadays everything is…

No one wants to do this work anymore, from what he told me. And it’s also very time-consuming. So a good part is done by weaving, by textile factories. And we found out where the locals who live here come to buy things because there are very few tourists in this area.

Yeah, the Grand Bazaar is totally touristy and right next to it, attached, there is the non-touristy. a lot of people also start that the prices here are all in lira and not in euros like we were seeing at the bazaar.

And we came down from the Grand Bazaar, passed by this Turkish bazaar, and we arrived at the Spice Bazaar. Here it is also known as the Egyptian Bazaar, it is the second most famous after the Grand Bazaar, and it is named Egyptian because at the time it was built

The money used came from Egyptian import taxes. so that’s why he is also known like that. And what we want to see… If I’m not mistaken, the direct translation of it is Egyptian. And what we want to see is on the other side, so we’ll have to go through it.

If we can, right? The smell of this place… It’s everything you can imagine in spices. Absurd. And now we have finished the southern part here in Istanbul, where the bazaars are, now we are going to cross to the northern part, which is known as the most

Modern part of Istanbul. And you can cross either by public transportation. or walking, because we are here at the Galata Bridge. There are so many seagulls! And here it smells like fish. Wow, amazing! The entire Galata Bridge has several restaurants underneath it, and here in the front, there are some little boats.

That sell the fish sandwich that is very famous here in Istanbul as well. So they are a boat that goes around serving those who are sitting at the tables here on land. And the boats are very beautiful. Yes! It’s not like any random boat that stops here.

There are some small tables here and the boats over there serving sandwiches, and a bunch of people calling for the restaurant. Wow, look at that! It’s like a huge path of jellyfish, I don’t know if we’ll be able to see it on the camera because it’s very far away

That’s crazy! I’ve never seen that before Look, there are fish in the uncles’ buckets. But I told Douglas, they might have bought it. And the guys keep showing their skills, right? Some have buckets full of fish. Others have an empty bucket. That’s right.

And we passed by the Galata Bridge and now we want to reach the Galata Tower. But to get there is quite a climb. Istanbul also has several hills and the tower is there because of its strategic position. We’ll tell you more when we get there.

But to get there, we are looking for a funicular. apparently, it is one of the oldest ones that exist and it is around here but we are a bit lost when trying to find the entrance let’s try to search properly we found out why we won’t be able to

Here, look, it’s closed, it’s under maintenance until January which is in… January 27th 5 days We’ll have to climb the hill then, let’s go! And look where we came out! Oh my goodness! Closer than… This wall is already the Galata Tower! Wow, the line is huge. It costs 650 liras to go up.

Actually, I’m not sure if we can go to the balcony because we saw it’s under maintenance, but there’s a museum inside. I think it’s just the museum, you can’t even see the view and the street here is very beautiful around Galata, it’s super crowded, lots of people, lots of bars, cafes

There was even a marriage proposal here on the floor just now, much more bustling than I imagined from a tower from the 13th century that has served as a prison, has served as an observation tower because it’s high up and you can see a good part and also a fire observation tower

This side gives a much better view of it it does, it’s very beautiful yeah, very cool and this charming little train is the second oldest subway in the world, it only comes after London’s it goes up from down there, where we were, near the bridge, up to here

But that bottom part I think is under maintenance, so he’s leaving from here in the middle there are actually several kids hanging on back there it seems like some sort of party, you pay to get in I think it must be the same standard price as public transportation here

There are some kids holding on just for fun yeah, he’s not going very fast because you’re cutting through the crowd here so he can’t go very fast because it’s a street full of people And this is one of the main shopping streets here in Istanbul, at least on the top of the peninsula.

And well hidden, we found a Catholic church. Wow! Wow, really well hidden. Like, behind the gate. It’s like we were saying, during the Ottoman Empire, you could have your churches, but what they would do is they had to be hidden, they couldn’t be visible

So they usually had gates, they were even below ground level. they were much more hidden. I think one thing that is very different from this part here is that it has a much more European look, like the buildings, the buildings here, it’s a slightly different style from what we saw down there

Maybe that’s why they say this is the most modern part of Istanbul. And at the end of Istiklal Street, where we were, we arrived at Taksim Square. This is where a lot of hotels are concentrated, and a lot of restaurants around it. Actually, our Airbnb is here too.

Yeah, in fact, we got… we are staying nearby. Because it’s a great place to stay as you are very well connected with public transportation. And one interesting thing about this square is that all the mosques we showed today were very old and historic, but

This gigantic one is the Taksim Mosque and it is from 2021. So it’s very new. Baby mosque. and for sure this won’t be the last video of Istanbul you’ll see here, because we haven’t even set foot on the Asian side yet, so it’s coming, it’s coming. And that’s it. Goodbye!

E finalmente chegamos em nosso 15º país! Inauguramos nossas explorações pela Turquia pela maior e icônica cidade de Istambul 🇹🇷

Sendo uma das grandes cidades do mundo, nossa expectativa para Istambul estava muito alta e mesmo assim, podemos dizer que as mesmas foram superadas com sucesso!!!

Até hoje, foi o lugar mais diferente que visitamos, uma religião com a qual tivemos praticamente zero contato, uma culinária famosíssima mas ao mesmo tempo inexplorada, pessoas amigáveis, cores, sabores, muito de tudo!

Nesse vídeo compartilhamos um pouco de como foi esse pontapé inicial nas terras turcas e visitamos alguns dos principais pontos turísticos da cidade.

🏨 Apartamento que mostramos no vídeo e vamos ficar as próximas semanas em Istambul:
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🎬 Capítulos:

00:00 – Bem-vindos a Istambul!
01:06 – Praça Sultanahmet
01:55 – Mesquita Azul
07:33 – Antigo Hipódromo de Constantinopla
08:05 – Fonte Alemã
09:06 – Obelisco de Teodósio
10:37 – Mesquita de Santa Sofia
13:06 – Nuruosmaniye Dürümcüsü
15:50 – Experimentando o Simit
16:51 – Grand Bazar
23:11 – Bazar Local e Bazar das Especiarias
25:13 – Ponte de Galata
27:07 – Torre de Galata
29:09 – Rua Istiklal

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