Emirgan Pavilions

Emirgan Korusu - Sarı Köşk (Emirgan Grove - Sarı Pavilion)
The Sarı Köşk (built by Khedive Ismail Pasa between 1871-1878 and used as a residence) looks like a bird's house.

Partially open to the public as a picnic place for some time, it was fully opened to the public in 1943 by the Municipality. You may enjoy a magnificent and fabulous panorama from the hill. The European style has been influential in this grove. A romantic English garden has also been designed here.

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.

There is a small pool on the hill. Tiny water falls draw your sight to the large lake and cascade cavern behind it. The Sarı Pavilion was used for many years for hunting, resting and guest hosting purposes by its owners. It was also operated by Turing as a restaurant and cafeteria, and it was later transferred to Municipality of Metropol Istanbul.

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.

Emirgan Korusu Sarıyer
Tel: (212) 229 50 38

Emirgan Korusu - Pembe Köşk (Emirgan Grove - Pink Pavilion)
The Pembe Köşk, one of three pavilions in the grove, 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.

Now it serves as a restaurant and cafeteria with five-star service for three-star prices. 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.

Emirgan Korusu Sarıyer
Tel: (212) 229 50 38

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