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Yerebatan Cistern

Yerebatan Sarnici, Alemdar Mh., Yerebatan Caddesi 13, Istanbul, Turkey

Open daily 9am-6.30pm.


Everyone loves the sixth-century Yerebatan Cistern, with its cheap coloured lights, new-age music, slippery floors, and that constant drip, drip, drip. Historically, nothing significant ever happened here, and it was never meant to be seen. Never mind: it’s just the place to go on a sweltering day.