This is one of the two Medusa heads at the foot of two pillars, located at the far left of the cistern.

An amazing place to visit, a beautiful piece of Byzantine engineering, and discovered by the Ottomons (it had been in existance before the Ottomon period) when people collected water and fish from their cellars by lowering buckets.

You can walk around the pillarson path above the water, listening to the music and the dripping of water and stopping to watch fish gather below.

The roof is held up by 336 columns each over 8m high. When you think this was designed and constructed by using pure mathmatical calculations it is an amazing feat. (Location: Istanbul, Basilica Cistern)

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