I do as I would assume like most people do as they walk through the various areas...what would it have been like to live here then? Clearly, a much different live for the sultan than for the chief eunuch for the harem. A much different reality for the Grand Vizier than for one of the 200 kitchen staff that cooked for and fed what essentially was a small town of a couple thousand behind the palace walls.
I liked the tiles in this wall one of the small passageways in the harem. All the drama and intrigue......the harem is not a seedy, sordid place. It was the royal residence and his family. The queen mother, the up to three other wives of the sultan who had given birth to one of his children....plus the eunuchs to protect them all and the concubines to serve the queen mother, the other wives and the sultan.
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