Palace of Antiochos

Istanbul, Turkey

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Palace of Antiochos was an early 5th-century Byzantine palace in Constantinople (modern Istanbul), located close to the Hippodrome. Excavated in the 1940s and 1950s, the structure was subsequently repurposed in the 7th century, when part of it was converted into the church of St Euphemia in the Hippodrome, a martyr's shrine that endured until the Palaiologan period. Though largely built over by a modern hotel, fragments of the original palace remain visible beneath a glass floor in the hotel's dining hall, offering glimpses of Byzantine palatial architecture from the empire's formative centuries.