We meet our guide after lunch and board our vehicle for the Byzantine relics.

We travel by minibus to visit the remains of sea and land walls of Constantinople, we drive by the remains of the Bucheleon, the summer palace of the Great Palace of Byzantium and then make a visit to the Church of Sergius and Bacchus, (commonly called the Kucuk Ayasofya, now partly serving as a mosque) situated in a very close neighbourhood.

Next we skirt the great Theodosian land walls, a great feat of military architecture which preserved the city for over 1000 years.

We end with one of the greatest treasures of Istanbul The Church of Chora, (Kariye Camii) a Byzantine church in which frescoes and mosaics of the 14th century remain virtually intact. The mosaics and frescoes create one of the most remarkable interiors you are ever likely to see.

We return to the hotel passing the remains of the last Byzantine palace, the Blachernae, and then driving under the great Aqueduct of Valen, now called the Bozdogan Sarnici.