Dolmabahçe Palace

Dolmabahçe Palace

Year

1856

Architect

Type

building

Sultan Abdülmecid I built Dolmabahçe to signal Ottoman modernity, replacing Topkapı's inward-looking courtyards with a 600-meter Bosphorus-front palace facade in European Baroque. The Balyan family synthesized Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassi …

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