Dolmabahçe Palace.. Symmetry has a title
Last Updated: 2023-07-27Dolma Bahce Palace
It is the palace that contains the room where Ataturk died, and it is the third largest palace built in Istanbul today, in which 6 Ottoman sultans lived and also the first president of the modern Republic of Turkey.
Palace Location:
Dolmabahce Palace is located in the coastal area of Besiktas on the European coast of the Bosphorus, and the harbor in this area is a harbor appreciated by rulers during the Byzantine period and royal palaces were built in its area. It is a port to which many ships in ancient palaces have taken refuge.
Dolmabahce Palace dates back to 1843 and is considered one of the most important tourist attractions in Istanbul, and it is an image that fully reflects the luxury and extravagance enjoyed by the Byzantine sultans, as it is a very luxurious building, ordered to be built by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I, and it took 13 years and large amounts of gold and silver were used to cladding the inner face of the palace.
Its architectural design:
The construction of the palace was supervised by the architect Zohtu Pasha, and his son Grabit Palin completed his father's work.
The architects designing the palace combined a range of architectural arts from France, Germany and Italy together to form this beautiful edifice.
They mixed the aristocratic Rococo style of sculpture and painting, with the curved baroque, columns and ornate paintings that adorn the walls.
What distinguishes the palace and gives it this amount of prestige and luxury is the strange symmetry that the designers were keen to preserve.
Palace Sections:
The interior of the palace consists of 285 rooms and 46 halls and is divided into three parts:
Part for the Sultan's Majlis, part for ceremonies and part for women in the palace.
Among the beautiful important sections of the palace:
The main entrance to the palace:
It is a distinctive hall overlooking the sea, with which you begin your entry into the distinctive palace, a hall used by officials and ministers in the Ottoman Empire as a meeting room and a council for them as well.
Crystal Hall:
A hall that indicates richness and luxury because of its luxurious elegant royal red carpets made of silk and cotton mixed with threads of antique gold and fine silver, all gifted by the Tsar of Russia, as well as wool.
It also has the largest and most beautiful bohemian crystal chandelier you can see in the world, and Queen Victoria presented it as a gift to the palace.
And we end the conversation with the room where Ataturk died, as we mentioned earlier,
Ataturk Room:
It is also a room with a sea view, a room like a museum with everything in it, which is historically important because it is the room where Ataturk breathed his last.
This room has two doors and four windows, a bed in walnut wood embroidered with bronze, and its walls are decorated with light green wallpaper decorated with stars and flowers.
Ataturk died there in 1938 in October.
A beautiful room in which details play a great role in drawing its history beautifully accurately.
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