Topkapı

Topkapı (stress on the last syllable which is more of a long "pit" sound than a Pee one - notice the dotless i at the end of the name) - a place where one can see a bucket of emeralds each bigger than a chicken egg, the personal remains (hair, nail, sword, letter etc.) of the Prophet of Allah, dresses and thrones, jewels and teapots of the Ottoman Empire.

Photos by Valera Meylis