| THE GULHANE PARK (The Rose Garden Park) | ||
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It is one of the oldest parks in Istanbul. The Park is located between Sarayburnu, the Topkapi Palace and the Cizme Gate. It took its name from the rose gardens of the Topkapi Palace. In the Byzantine Period, in Gulhane, there was military depots and barracks, later on the Mangana Palace was built. But, this was a holy area because of Hagios Georgies Monastery and Panagia Hodegetria Sacred Spring (Ayazma). After the conquest of Istanbul, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror had the Tiled Villa built, after surrounded Sarayburnu with city walls. In this villa many sports activities took place as wrestling, javelin etc. On the memory of these important activities many target stones were stitched around the area. Grand vizier Sinan Pasha had İncili Villa (Pearled Villa) built here for Sultan Murad III. For the cleaning of the gardens and palaces in Gülhane, a squadron was arranged from the Bostancı Ocagı, and named as Gülhane Ocagı. The first important construction studies of Istanbul were made in 1776 by French architect Kauffer, Gülhane was included in these studies but it could not have been renovated. In 1839, because the Tanzimat Firman (The Restoration Manifesto) was read in the Gülhane Park, the firman was called also as the Gülhane Hattı Humayunu. In 1880’s, Sultan Abdulhamid II gave permission for the construction of the first in here. While the construction of the Müze-i Humayun (Museum), the garden planning was revived and the openning of both the museum and the garden took place together. Atatürk, in 24th November 1928, in the ceremony took place in Gülhane took the “Master Teacher” reputation and introduced the Latin alphabet to public and he gave his first lecture. The Park is still one of the most important parks in İstanbul, and there is a zoo established in 1955. |
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