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Hotel Alp Istanbul GuideIstanbul Travel |
| 22 December |
Cicek Pasaji is one of the hidden places for foreigners, altough it has been on the Istiklal Street since 1876. Passage was built by Hristaki Zografos who is banker in 1870 after the original building was damaged due to fire. Before Hristaki Zografos ‘ s reconstruction building was a theatre. The new building was built as shops for entrance and first floor, appartments for upper floors.
In 1908, the managment of building was given Grand Vizier Sait Pasa, Flower auctioneers started to gathered in this building, in following years; passage is nearly fully with Flower Shops.
After 1940, pubs, restaurants, meyhanes(Turkish restaurant with alcohol) begun opening here. In next years, all the flower shops and flat dwellers moved anywhere of outside the passage, and then Flower is only name.
Now, The Cicek Pasaji is giving service with 10 Restaurants with Passage’s nearly 150 years of historical atmosphere. Every of these restaurant has a different design and the things which are waiting you to explore it.
RESTAURANTS
Bahar Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Ceneviz Meyhanesi (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Huzur Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Ikinci Bahar Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Kime Ne Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Palmiye Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Stop Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Sev Ic (Sev İç) Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Cinar Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Mahzen Restaurant (click link to reach Restaurant’s menu, photos and contact informations)
Cicek Passage’s web site
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| 20 October |
The Princes’ Islands (Turkish: Kızıl Adalar (Red Islands) or more commonly Adalar (Islands) as they are officially named; classical , are a chain of nine islands off the coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Sea of Marmara. These islands are Büyükada with an area of 5.36 km², Heybeliada (Greek: Halki) with an area of 2.4 km², Burgazada (Greek: Antigoni) with an area of 1.5 km², Kinaliada (Greek: Proti, meaning “The First”, being the closest island to Istanbul) with an area of 1.3 km², Sedef Adası (Greek: Terebinthos) with an area of 0.157 km², Yassıada (Greek: Plati) with an area of 0.05km², Sivriada (Greek: Okseia) with an area of 0.05km², Kaşıkadası (spoon island, named for its shape) with an area of 0.006 km², and Tavşanadası with an area of 0.004 km². During the summer months the Princes’ Islands are popular destinations for day trips from Istanbul. As there is no traffic on the Islands, the only transport being horse and cart, they are incredibly peaceful compared with the city of Istanbul. Most ferries call in turn at the four largest of the nine islands: Kınalıada, Burgazada, Heybeliada and finally Büyükada. Ferry services are provided by Istanbul Seabuses (İDO), a firm operated by the municipality of Istanbul. In spring and autumn the islands are quieter and more pleasant, although the sea can be rough in late autumn and winter.
During the Byzantine period, prince and other royalty were exiled on the islands, and later members of the Ottoman sultans family were exiled there too, lending the islands their present name. During the 19th century the islands became a popular resort for Istanbul’s wealthy, and Victorian era cottages and houses are still preserved on the largest of the Princes’ islands. The Princes’ Islands have become more and more ethnically Turkish in character due to the influx of wealthy Turkish jetsetters, a process which began in the first days of the Turkish Republic when the British Yacht Club on Büyükada was appropriated as Anadolu Kulübü, for Turkish parliamentarians to enjoy Istanbul in the summer. However, the Greek, Armenian and Jewish communities still constitute a small part of the islands’ population. The islands are an interesting anomaly because they allow us to have a rare and incomplete insight into a multicultural society in modern Turkey, possibly alike to the multicultural society that once existed during the Ottoman Empire in places such as nearby Istanbul/Constantinople For many Turkish people the islands are fondly remembered as the home of famous short story writer Sait Faik Abasıyanık and football legend Lefter Küçükandonyadis.
How To go to Islands
There are public ferry services to Islands from Kabatas, You will get on the tram from Sultanahmet till Kabatas.
Click for time table www.ido.com.tr
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