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Yesil Ev Hotel
City center, Sultanahmet |
| SINGLE
Room |
DOUBLE
Room |
TRIPLE
Room |
SUITE |
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160 € |
200 € |
250 € |
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Including
bed & breakfast and taxes |
Yesil Ev Hotel
is located in the
heart of the Old City in Istanbul, at the Beyazit - Sultanahmet
district. Being an old wooden house at first this mansion was
transformed to a model of a traditional building with furniture
in 19th century style. A conservatory was built in the garden,
which contains a monumental pool in pink porphyry from the mansion
of the Serasker Riza Pasha Yildiz of same period. The hotel
called Yesil Ev meaning Green House was restored carefully in
1997, offering rather small rooms except the one and only spacious
which is called the Pasha room. It is a special class
hotel and consists of 19 rooms including 4 standard twins and
the Pasha room.
The
mansion belonging to the Minister of Monopolies, Sukru Bey,
managed to survive, in a dilapidadet state, until the 1970's.
The Turkish Touring and Automobile Association began to implement
his plan first for the revitalisation of this mansion which,
with is exceptional location, would serve as a model of traditional
housing and accommodation. The old rooms (nineteen in all) and
layout being carefully preserved.
The
furnishings chosen by Mr. Celik Gulersoy, the General Manager
of the Association were in the style of a 19 th century winter
mansion. The building has an absolutely unrivaled location between
Ayasofya and the Blue Mosque, and at the same ofters the visitor
the warm, friendly atmosphere of an old Istanbul home. It very
quickly attained a world-wide reputation. the famous newspapers
such as the Washington Post, New york Times and Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, contributed articles expressing their admiration
and appreciation...
"Europa
Nostra", international organisation centered in London,
awarded Yesil Ev the medal for the year. The best analysis of
the role undertaken by Yesil Ev in Istanbul tourism comes from
the pen of the historian of Byzantine art, Lord John Julius
Norwich:
" In
the early 1980's, something wonderfull happened: Mr. Celik Gulersoy,
director general of the Touring and Automobile Association of
Turkey, opened an enchanting little hotel on the edge of the
small park that separates the city's most venerable Byzantine
church, St. Sophia, from the one of its magnificent Islamic
monuments, the Sultan Ahmed (Blue) Mosque, The hotel-called
the Yesil Ev, for "Green House" was an old woodeen
house of the mid-nineteenth century and in most cities would
have been lovingly and sensitively restored by Mr. Gulersoy
and filled with furniture and fittings. This judgement was confirmed
by President Mitterand, who chose Yesil Ev for his New Year
visit in 1992/1993
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