Cosmopolitan Park Hotel  

Cosmopolitan Park Hotel is in Old İstanbul, at the heart of two cosmopolitan civilizations, Roman (Byzantine) and Ottoman. This hotel is located between two monumental symbols of these civilizations: Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque. The area is called Sultanahmet for some four hundred years. Sultanahmet is taken from the name of Ahmet I, one of the important sultans of the Ottoman Empire. It was the center of these empires. Almost all the important political events occured in spectacular ways in this area. All major state institutions, palaces, schools, parliaments, churches and mosques, courts, major social spaces such as hippodrome, shopping places, cafes were located here until the republican era in first quarter of the twentieth century. When you step into this area, you feel history coming out from every corner.

Cosmopolitan Park Hotel is in one of the best positions to feel that historical atmosphere. The hotel is across the street from a major Roman palace which is called MAGNAURA. This palace was the location where the defeated Roman emperor presented the symbolic key of Constantinople to the victorious crusader emperor. From the hotel you can walk in a few minutes to Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Mosaic Museum, Hippodrome, Islamic Art Museum. Topkapı Palace, Roman Cistern, Archaelogical Museum. The Grand Bazaar and the Spice Bazaar take 15 minutes walk.