Grand Bazaar
The Grand Bazaar (Kapalıçarşı, meaning ‘covered market’) in Istanbul is one of the biggest and oldest covered markets in the world. Construction began in 1455 and wasn’t finished until 1730.
Regarded as the world’s first shopping mall, the bazaar is one of Istanbul’s major landmarks and among the world’s most visited tourist attractions, with around with 91,250,000 annual visitors (2014).
