Ortaköy Villiage, Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey
Having most beautiful scene in Istanbul, Ortakoy is one of the oldest district of Istanbul and linked with Besiktas.
With its narrow cobblestone streets, delicious food and magnificent landscape ground under the Bosphorus Strait which is the first bridge linking the European side of Istanbul to Asia, Ortakoy absolutely one of Istanbul’s sweetest shore suburbs, makes easily transportation and a dreamy tour.
Ortakoy was a little pretty town before; but today it’s a modern neighbourhood of Istanbul, which is one of the main place surrogated the many restaurants, bars, cafes and galleries. For example of that, maybe the best emphasized of these is Hüsrev Kethüda Hamam reflecting a 16th century Hamam built by the hero Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, which has been turned into a restaurant, bar and cultural centre at present.
Another feature of Ortaköy; at the Ottoman period there were located many mansions and summerhouses belonging to the Sultans and Pashas along the seaside. Especially after Suleiman the Magnificent began to live here, the number of Turks increased in that district. Also built by genius architect Sinan in that period, ‘’Ortaköy Turkish Bath’’ is one of the most famous structures of him.
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