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Yerebatan Sarnici
Medusa @ Yerebatan Sarnici (Basilica Cistern), Istanbul, Turkey.
This cistern is 143 by 65 metres, capable of holding 80,000 cubic metres of water. It is broken up by 336 marble columns.. The bases of two of these columns reuse earlier blocks carved with the head of a Medusa.
The cistern was built by Greeks during the reign of emperor Justinianus in C6th (Byzantine Empire). The cistern is surrounded by a firebrick wall (4 meters thick) and coated with a special mortar for insulation against water. The cistern's water was provided from the Belgrade Woods (19km north of Istanbul) —via aqueducts built by the emperor Justinianus.
The cistern was used as a location for the James Bond film From Russia with Love.
Yerebatan Sarnici
Medusa @ Yerebatan Sarnici (Basilica Cistern), Istanbul, Turkey.
This cistern is 143 by 65 metres, capable of holding 80,000 cubic metres of water. It is broken up by 336 marble columns.. The bases of two of these columns reuse earlier blocks carved with the head of a Medusa.
The cistern was built by Greeks during the reign of emperor Justinianus in C6th (Byzantine Empire). The cistern is surrounded by a firebrick wall (4 meters thick) and coated with a special mortar for insulation against water. The cistern's water was provided from the Belgrade Woods (19km north of Istanbul) —via aqueducts built by the emperor Justinianus.
The cistern was used as a location for the James Bond film From Russia with Love.