Istanbul - Burned Column

Along Divanyolu in Istanbul, on the second of the seven hills of New Rome (on the right), rises the so-called Burned Column (Cembererlitas, Hooped Stone), the stump (still 40m/130ft high) of a porphyry column, originally 57m/185ft high, set up by Constantine the Great in his Forum. Until 1105 it bore a bronze statue of Constantine.