Visit Hagia Sophia with your guide and continue exploring the site at your own pace with an audio guide. Expand your knowledge and listen to the informative commentary.
About this activity
- Free cancellation
- Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund
- Covid-19 precautions
- Special health and safety measures apply. Learn more
- Mobile ticketing
- Use your phone or print your voucher
- Duration 1.5 hours
- Check availability to see starting times.
- Skip the ticket line
- Instant confirmation
- Live tour guide
- English
- Small group
- Limited to 8 participants
Experience
Highlights
- Experience legendary Hagia Sophia
- Explore the iconic building at your own pace
- Discover the Hagia Sophia with an audio guide app at your own pace
- Enjoy a highlights tour together with a tour guide
Full description
Take the shortest way into the legendary Hagia Sophia of Istanbul. Choose the time that suits you best, meet your guide at the entrance of Hagia Sophia enter together. Enjoy a highlights tour and learn all the interesting facts about the building.
Expand your knowledge about how to get to the different parts of the building to see the various points of interest. Then, enjoy the building at your own pace, and stay as long as you want.
Enjoy the building at your own pace with a downloadable audio guide on your smartphone, and stay as long as you want.
Be amazed by the size, volume, decoration, and impressive beauty of this iconic structure. Discover the traces of different civilizations, religions, sects, and cultures with a downloadable audio guide.
Includes
- Highlight Tour by a certified guide
- Short presentation in English
- Audio guide app in Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Chinese
- Headphones, please bring your own
Covid-19 precautions
You must book this activity online because the ticket office is closed
Safety measures in place
- All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
- You must keep social distance while in vehicles
- The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds
Traveler requirements
- You must bring your own headphones
- You are required to bring and wear a mask
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Participants
Date
Prepare for the activity
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Meeting point
Meet your guide (dressed in red), at the entrance of Hürrem Sultan Hamam. It is located below the trees, next to the newspaper kiosk and across from the Hagia Sophia. If you can not find your guide please call the emergency number.
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Know before you go
- Note that not all parts of the building are open due to renovation
- The audio guide app is available in 10 different languages
- Download the audio guide app on your smartphone before your visit. Download instructions are written in your confirmation.
- Please note, there is no internet at Hagia Sophia, so you won't be able to download the guide inside
- Once downloaded, you do not need an internet connection to use the app
- Woman are kindly asked to wear knee-length shorts or skirt, shoulders or chest should not be exposed and the hair should be partially covered with a scarf. Men are kindly asked to wear knee-length shorts and their shoulders shold not be exposed. In case you forget the dresscode you can buy clothes and scarves at the entrance