Cakiraga Konaklari, Ödemiş, İzmir, Turkey
Çakırağa Mansion, one of the rarely preserved architectural styles in the first building in the Aegean region, is the general opinion that it was built by Şerif Aliağa. Çakırağa Konağı, restored and restored at the beginning of the 90s after being in ruins for many years, is an important resource in the understanding of the Ottoman daily life in Turkish architecture.
One of the most beautiful examples of wooden Turkish houses, Konak is protected by high walls at the tip of the garden with flowers and not seen from the road. The mansion built by Çakıroğlu Mehmet Bey, a wealthy merchant in 1761, has three floors. Downstairs there are stoneware, kitchen, barn, guest waiting room. The second floor is more sheltered than it is used in the winter. The mansion, which looks at a large sofa in the smoking rooms, warms up with the fireplace. Wall and ceiling decorations in the rooms, pencil work, wood carving is worthy. Guest rooms have washroom sections. Lift up the staircase to the third cave (cottage floor). The floor is brighter and richer in pencil work, and there are two wall paintings.
Çakıroğlu Mehmet Bey married one of the two ladies of İzmir and the other of Istanbul. The ladies had a view of İzmir and Istanbul on the walls of the rooms so that the country would not be desperate. Paintings are very important both in terms of giving the city’s day-to-day images and in terms of painting art. The mosque, decorated with flowers and motives as much as it is inside, is a center of attraction for many tourists.
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