BEYAZ PAVILION

Emirgan Grove, Sarıyer - Istanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°06'33.8"N 29°03'10.5"E / 41.109374, 29.052905



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The White Pavilion (Turkish: Beyaz Köşk) is the third mansion within the Emirgan Park built by Khedive Ismail Pasha. It is only 150 m (490 ft) far from the Yellow Pavilion. The two-storey wooden building bears the architectural characteristics of the neo-classical style. The White Pavilion is one of the three pavilions that Khedive İsmail Paşa commissioned at the Emirgan Woods between 1871 and 1878.

The Emirgan Park is closely associated with the tulip, the traditional flower, which gave its name to an era (1718-1730) of the Ottoman Empire. A special garden was established in Emirgan Park in the 1960s to revive the city's tradition of tulip cultivation. Since 2005, an annual international tulip festival is organized here every April making the park attractive and very colorful with these flowers.

The historic pavilion has a top floor with three rooms and a parlor and a bottom floor with 4 rooms, a kitchen and an entrance hall. The fine floral ornaments on the ceilings of the White Pavilion, the oil paintings and the ornaments on the façade are some of the most typical specimens of Turkish wood carving. The high ceilings feature rich hand drawings. Pomegranate blossoms, roses, carnations, jasmines and tulips decorate the walls and the ceilings are gilded.

For many years, the White Pavilion served as a hunting lodge, a picnic site, a resort and a guest house. The Touring and Automobile Club of Turkey ran the historic pavilion as a restaurant and cafe for a while. The Municipal Government of Istanbul renovated the pavilion in 1996 -1997.

The White Kiosk continues to host the people of Istanbul as well as domestic and foreign tourists as a restaurant and café run by Beltur A.Ş., a subsidiary of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The cafeteria is used as a cafeteria during the daytime, and as a restaurant in the evenings as it serves the Turkish Ottoman cuisine.

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WEB SITE : Beltur / White Pavilion

MORE INFO & CONTACT
E-Mail : info@beltur.com.tr
Phone : +90 212 413 9253 / +90 216 444 6644
Fax : +90 212 413 9474

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PEMBE PAVILION

Emirgan Grove, Sarıyer - Istanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°06'34.8"N 29°03'24.9"E / 41.109659, 29.056904



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The Pink Pavilion (Turkish: Pembe Köşk), one of the three mansions in the park built by Khedive Ismail Pasha, is a two-storey, typical Ottoman house. Named after its exterior's original color of cranesbill flower pink, the pavilion reflects the glory of its history with fine ornaments.

The Pembe Köşk is a typical two-story Ottoman house with wooden coated walls, painted in sardine pink color. It suites its name and will embrace you as soon as you go in. It has three entrances: protocol, front and personnel entrance. At the main entrance there is a spacious hall and two rooms opening into this hall, and there is another secret room entered through protocol entrance.

The first floor also houses a bathroom and a kitchen. A large stairwell from the hall goes up to the second floor, where there is again a big hall, two big rooms and also another five big rooms past the aisles and two small case rooms. It was repaired and restored by Turing in 1982 and transferred to the Municipality of Metropolitan Istanbul in 1995.

The pavilion offers a la carte service during weekdays and with breakfast in the morning and an open buffet in the afternoons during the weekends. Furthermore, it available for conventions and wedding ceremonies. In the summer months, the premise can accommodate up to 350 guests, for cocktails up to 500 people. In the winter time, groups of up to 150 guests can be served.

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WEB SITE : Beltur / Pink Pavilion

MORE INFO & CONTACT
E-Mail : info@beltur.com.tr
Phone : +90 212 413 9253 / +90 216 444 6644
Fax : +90 212 413 9474

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SARI PAVILION

Emirgan Grove, Sarıyer - Istanbul - Turkey

GPS : 41°06'28.7"N 29°03'12.9"E / 41.107971, 29.053590



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The Yellow Pavilion (Turkish: Sarı Köşk) is a large wooden mansion in the form of a chalet built by Khedive Ismail Pasha between 1871-1878 as a hunting lodge and guest house. Situated in the center of the park and overlooking the Bosporus, the two-storey mansion with one balcony, one terrace and a basement is constructed on an area of 400 m2 (4,300 sq ft). It consists of four rooms, one hall and a kitchen in the lower floor and three rooms and one salon in the upper floor.

The Yellow Pavilion is built as a chalet and resembles a bird house. Its layout reflects the architecture of the traditional Ottoman house with a salon encircled by many living rooms. The Yellow pavilion is a large wooden mansion that is in the form of a chalet. It was used as a hunting lodge and guest house.

The ornaments at the ceilings and the walls were the work of the court architect Sarkis Balyan. The ceilings are enriched with oil painted flower figures and the facades with outstanding carvings. The high doors and windows, as well as the opulent interior decorations in bright colors reflect the glory of that era. A pond is situated to the northeast, next to the mansion. Ornaments based on flower patterns cover the ceiling while hand made ornaments outside give the building the outlook of a Turkish birdhouse.

The layout in which the sofa is central to the living place as a requirement of traditional living style has remained unchanged for years. The ceiling and wall ornaments in the buildings of Sarkis Balyan as well as big and high doors and windows, and brilliant and colorful carvings inside the pavilion all play an important role.

Sarı Pavilion consists of three rooms and one hall on the upper floor and four rooms, hall and kitchen at the basement. The pavilion was decorated to recall a birdhouse using the yellow color with white motifs. Wood work from the 17th and 19th centuries in Ottoman Empire has rendered a warmer atmosphere to the buildings. Walnut, apple, plane, lime, ebony, rose and oak tree materials were used.

Today, the park is owned b the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul and it covers an area of 117 acres on a hillside. The park is also enclosed by high walls. The park is a nature park although it has a manmade pond with a fountain, but that is just to enhance its beauty.

It also has two decorative ponds in total, and there are more than 120 species of plants that adorn the area. These have even been recorded, and some of the most recognised plants are the Blue Pine, Lebanon Cedar, Atlas Cedar, Norway Spruce, Eastern White Pine, Ash tree, and Maidenhair tree.

Used only by the owners from the very beginning, the pavilion was restored within four months in the beginning of the 1980s with due diligence, furnished with antiques and opened to the public as a cafeteria. The Yellow Pavilion, the main base of the park, is run since 1997 by Beltur, the tourism company of the Metropolitan Municipality of Istanbul.

Up to 100 guests can be served at the premise in summer and winter time. The pavilion offers a la carte service during weekdays and with breakfast in the morning and an open buffet with 55 kinds of food in the afternoons during the weekends.

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WEB SITE : Beltur / Yellow Pavilion

MORE INFO & CONTACT
E-Mail : info@beltur.com.tr
Phone : +90 212 413 9253 / +90 216 444 6644
Fax : +90 212 413 9474

These scripts and photographs are registered under © Copyright 2017, respected writers and photographers from the internet. All Rights Reserved.