2. Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European side of Bosphorus, was the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire. The construction, cost five million Mecidiye, Ottoman gold coin, the equivalent of 35 tons of gold. Fourteen of those tons of gold were used to gild the ceilings of the 45,000 square foot palace. It was built between 1843 and 1856 by Garabet Balyan, the best-known member of the Armenian architect family, the chief architect of Sultan Abdulmecit.
19. Algunas de las muchas obras de arte que se pueden admirar en el Palacio.. These are just some pieces of the vast collection of works of art in gold, displayed the Palace.