Grand Bazaar
is really Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı), Istanbul, Turkey
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A huge walkable market where Ezio learns bomb-making and tails a Janissary captain.
The real place
Its core was begun under Mehmed II in the 1450s; it was much smaller in 1511 than today's maze of more than 60 streets.
Visiting
Closed on Sundays; enter by the Beyazıt or Nuruosmaniye gates.
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