«Here to help» is her kind comment at the end, even if I’m not sure she understood who the philosopher emperor was.
I avoid Turkish coffee and we get a taxi to the centre.
I studied that the Holy Apostles cathedral was built by Constantin as a mausoleum for himself and his family, giving the latest and greatest example of his mixture of pagan cults with Christian rites.
«There it is» Chiara points out while getting off the taxi.
Instead of the classical Christian building, I see domes, little domes and minarets: the church isn’t there anymore, they built a mosque over it. In the outside explaining panel it is reminded how the transformation took place in the XV century, following the ottomans conquer: only some elements remain of the original Christian cathedral, mainly the imperial bu
