Be dwarfed by the sublime artistry of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia
It is appropriate that the Hagia Sophia rubs shoulders on this list with the Grand Canyon. Entering the interior of the greatest Byzantine monument has an effect more akin to a vast natural edifice than a building.
Above you rises the "Floating dome", described by historian Procopius as "hung from heaven on a golden chain". With its concealed pillars and circular plan on top of a rectangular plan, the dome changed the history of architecture and made Emperor Justinian's 6th century basilica the world's finest building for a millennium.
The finer details of this church converted to a mosque by the Ottamans and to a museum by Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish republic are outstanding too; climb to the upper galleries to see golden mosaics of Byzantine emperors and empresses, and find runic graffiti carved out by 9th-century Vikings in the marble balustrade. ( By Lonely Planet)
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