Once the home of the Ottoman sultans and their huge families, the Topkapi Palace ranks as Istanbul's most magnificent monuments and today draws tens of thousands of visitors annually from across the face of the globe. The small kiosks, baths, workshops, mosques, libraries...all seem to have been built in a random and unplanned fashion, disparate elements built side by side, yet somehow the chaos of this construction results in a complex that is remarkably harmonious in an architectural sense. This was not just the home of the Ottoman sultans, but the palace was also the administrative headquarters of the Ottoman Empire; this dichotomy was solved by sharply dividing the palace into distinctively different areas according to use and function. While the entire palace is extremely interesting, the harem quarters and the treasury are even more so.

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