Yıldız Park

Yıldız Park, also known as Yıldız Grove, is a historical İstanbul park located in Beşiktaş. Yıldız Park, where the Palanga Street extending from Balmumcu to Ortaköy and the Çırağan Street extending from Ortaköy to Beşiktaş, constitutes the southern border, has two gates, one on Palanga Street and the other on Çırağan Street. The park, which includes the Maltese and Tent kiosks, is the largest grove in the city with an area of ​​approximately 46 hectares.

Yıldız Park is also known as the laurel forests mentioned in various historical sources and the greens in which the mythological stories Pan plays the flute on the Bosphorus. Located in the heart of Istanbul between Besiktas and Ortakoy Yildiz, in the record of the period of Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1600s was the Kazancıoğlu Garden.

Yildiz Park, Istanbul Reviews

Yildiz Park, which began to emerge in the early 1600s, was the property of the Kazancıoğlu family at the time. Park, Sultan IV. It was purchased by Murat and presented to his daughter Kaya Sultan and hosted various entertainments during the Ciragan worlds, which were arranged in the Tulip Age based on the taste of ornament. First, the back garden of the Ciragan Palace, and then the extension of the Yildiz Palace, which was expanded from 1877 onwards, was named as Yildiz Park after 1940.

It is known that the training of Asakir-i Mansureyi Muhammediye which was established after the abolition of the janissary organization was held here in the grove where Yıldız Pavilion was also located. Bezm-i Alem Sultan also built a pavilion, and Sultan Abdulaziz himself admired after building the Ciragan Palace, this main street on the main street today, some of which is still standing stone and marble embroidered bridge connected to the palace and only the sultan and his immediate surroundings can use the grove is known as the Mabeyn Garden.

After the throne settled in the Yıldız Palace II. Abdulhamid, Malta, Tent, Şale, Kaskat, Limonluk, Set and Cihannüma pavilions and Palace Theater was built. During these constructions, it is known that he spent large amounts of money on domestic and foreign experts and that altın gold was poured on every square meter hatta.

The Chale Pavilion, which was given to an Italian operator in 1925 after the proclamation of the Republic and used as a casino, was taken from this operator with the intervention of Atatürk and divided into three in the 1930s. Wall tent in the woods by the sea side and the Malta Pavilion, Istanbul Municipality, is made in the top part of the Military Academy, also located towards the northern Chalet Pavilion behind the wall was left to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The area belonging to the War Academy was transferred to the Ministry of Culture in 1978.