The Great Palace in Constantinople

The great palace in Constantinople was on a different scale. It covered 100 hectares of land and is not visible on the map as one giant building but lots of its smaller parts are labelled. The main entrance to the palace was through the Chalk or Brazen House, a grand entrance vestibule where guards would control access to the hundreds of people going to and from it every day. This made it a high traffic area and as a result just outside the gate, prostitutes applied their trade. When Constantine founded his new Rome, he wanted to make sure it had important similarities with the old one for both PR and superstitious reasons. On the map you can see that the 4th, 5th