What is Grand Bazaar?
[[File:Grand Bazaar Istanbul 2007 010.jpg|thumb|right|180px|{{Center|Grand Bazaar in Istanbul}}]] The '''Grand Bazaar''' ({{lang-tr|Kapalıçarşı}}, meaning ‘Grand Bazaar’)<ref name=mw345>Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, ''Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul bis zum Beginn d. 17 Jh'' (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1977), p. 345</ref> in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]] is one of the largest and oldest [[Bazaar|covered markets]] in the [[world]]. It has 61 covered [[street]]s. There are more than 3,000 [[shop]]s.<ref name=mw349>Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, ''Bildlexikon zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul bis zum Beginn d. 17 Jh'' (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1977), p. 349</ref> As of 2014, there were no official [[statistics]] about the number of shops in the Bazaar. But it [[wikt:vary|varies]] between 3,000 and 4,000. The bazaar attracts between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily.<ref name=gba>{{cite web|url=http://grandbazaaristanbul.org/The_Grand_Bazaar.html|title=The Grand Bazaar|accessdate=2 June 2015|archive-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903121619/http://www.grandbazaaristanbul.org/The_Grand_Bazaar.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2013, it is listed as number one among the world's most-visited [[Tourism|tourist attractions]] with 91,250,000 annual visitors.<ref name=mwtno1>{{cite web|url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-visited-tourist-attractions/2|title=World's Most-Visited Tourist Attractions|accessdate=2 June 2015}}</ref> The bazaar was built in Ottoman times by Mehmet the Conquerer. It was grown by Suleiman the Magnificent. The Grand Bazaar occupies {{convert|30 |km2|abbr=off}}. There were hammams, inns, mosques and fountains in bazaar. The Grand Bazaar is located inside the [[walled city]] of [[Istanbul]]. It is in the [[district]] of [[Fatih]], in the [[neighbourhood]] bearing the same name, ''({{lang|tr|Kapalıçarşı}})''. == References == {{commons}} {{reflist}} {{europe-stub}} [[Category:Istanbul]] [[Category:Str