Dolmabahçe Palace, Turkey

Turkey-09, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

The Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, located at the European side of the Bosporus, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1922, apart from a twenty-year interval (1889-1909) in which the Yıldız Palace was used.