The Fun Parks and Gardens of Istanbul
The Fun Parks of Istanbul and amusement parks for children. You can find Turkey’s most beautiful botanical gardens and places of entertainment in this article. Especially families with children provided very good returns to this article. For this reason, we have written our Most Fun Parks and Gardens in Istanbul for you.
The Fun Parks and Gardens of Istanbul
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Bayrampasa City Park (Bayrampaşa Şehir Parkı)
Bayrampasa City Park, which was opened by our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 30, 2003, has the feature of being the biggest amusement park of our country with its construction on an area of 480.000 square meters. The park has 2 entrance-exit doors, one from the amusement park part and the other from the artificial pond part. Our first reaction after entering inside was to say “wow”. We found ourselves in a visual feast. We especially recommend families with children to come here to entertain their children.
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Beylikduzu Life Valley (Beylikdüzü Yaşam Vadisi)
The first phase of Beylikduzu Life Valley, which is 242 thousand 843 square meters, has been surrounded by Cankaya Avenue from the North, Anadolu Avenue from the South, Dervis Eroglu from the East, Erdemli Avenue and from the West by Kısla Street. In the Valley where visitors can rest and have fun, 200 trees of 100 different types, 75 different kinds of shrubs – shrubs, 400 cuddles of 6 different types – climbers, 6,225 seasonal flowers of 8 different types were used. Around the valley, there are the school, teacher house, nursing home, ice rink, grove, carpet field and 2 municipal service areas.
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Maltepe Beach Park (Maltepe Sahil Parkı)
The construction of Maltepe Beach Park, which is planned to be built on a 400 meters deep and 3.5-kilometer tape on an area of 1 million 200 thousand square meters, has been completed to a great extent and these completed parts have been opened for use. Afforestation works are still continuing in the park, which brought along great discussions during its construction. Let’s conclude that there will be 20,000 trees in the park with the end of the work. With the completion of the rest of the park, the total cost was announced as 201 million liras. The giant park began to be flooded, especially at the weekend, when the completed sections were opened to the public.
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Miniaturk Museum (Miniaturk Müzesi)
Miniaturk, established on a total area of 60,000 square meters, has a 15,000 square meter model area, 40,000 square meter green and open area, 3,500 square meter indoor area, 2,000 square meter pool and waterway, and a parking lot for 500 vehicles. Miniaturk Park, which was completed in as little as 22 months thanks to the simultaneous project coordination, is the miniature city with the largest model area in the world and completed in the shortest time. In addition to the models exhibited in the atmosphere of an open-air museum in Miniaturk, different venues are designed to ensure that visitors have a pleasant time.
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Gulhane Park
It was the outer garden of Topkapi Palace during the Ottoman Empire and it contained a grove and rose gardens. The first concrete step of democratization in Turkish history, the Edict of Tanzimat was read in Gulhane Park on 3 November 1839 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mustafa Resit Pasha during the reign of Abdulmecit and is also called Gulhane Hatt-ı Humayunu.
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Polonezkoy Nature Park (Polonezköy Tabiat Parkı)
Polonezkoy Nature Park, which is the first nature park of Istanbul, was declared as a nature park in 1994. Covering an area of approximately 3000 hectares, the park is also the biggest nature park in Istanbul today. The park is home to many wild animals. These animals; We can list Red Deer, Roe deer, Wild Boar, Coyote, Fox, Squirrel, Marten, Weasel, Pheasant, Partridge, Hawk, Hawk, Dogan, Blackbird, Saka, Üveyik, Owl, Magpie, Sparrow.
The park is also very rich in plant diversity. Plants in the area in general: Larch, Red Pine, Scots Pine, Sapli Oak, Sapless Oak, Hairy Oak, Hungarian Oak, Horse Chestnut, Anatolian Chestnut, European Spruce, Eastern Plane, Mediterranean Service, Hornbeam, Karaagac, Kızılagac, Beech, Ihlamur, We can list the types of Eastern Pastry, Anatolian Saparna, Mediterranean Bay, Arbutus, Blackberry, Spreader Mountain Medlar, Geyikdikeni-Hawthorn, Fire Thorn, Shrub Bush, White Flowering-Deciduous Snowball species.
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Ataturk Arboretum
When you go to Ataturk Arboretum, you can take lots of photos and have romantic moments by the lake. Arboretum, which is a business chief, affiliated with the Bahcekoy Forestry Directorate, can be defined as a tree museum that contains the “collection” of various living tree species.
It was established on an area of 345 hectares, southeast of the Belgrade forest. There are more than 1500 plant species in the arboretum. In addition, a considerable collection of bulbous plants and in Kirazlibent made in 1818 and 1916, Turkey’s first nursery was built by Sir Neset is also available here again. Apart from these, there are 3 artificial lakes.
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Japanese Garden (Baltalimanı Japon Bahçesi)
One of the beautiful places we live in Istanbul that we do not know. The Japanese Garden has a different atmosphere that takes you away from Istanbul. A place that most people never know or have never heard of. The reason for this must be that those who go are not talking about their environment. It should not be too high, but it is a fascinating place to visit. It will take you to distant lands with motifs reflecting Japanese culture, different plant types, artificial lake and calm. The venue is open every day and entrance is free.
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Zeytinburnu Medical Plants Garden (Zeytinburnu Tıbbi Bitkiler Bahçesi)
Carries the distinction of being the only garden of medicinal plants in Turkey, Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plant Garden is set on 14 acres of land and opened in 2005. It is known that the number of cultivated and labeled medicines exceed 700 in this project, which is jointly conducted by Zeytinburnu Municipality and Merkezefendi G.T.D. Plant wastes in the garden are evaluated as natural fertilizers and synthetic fertilizers and medicines are not used.
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Nezahat Gokyigit Botanical Garden (Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi)
Nezahat Gökyigit Botanical Garden was established in 1995 by Ali Nihat Gökyigit to create a souvenir park on behalf of his wife Nezahat Gökyigit, approximately 50,000 trees and bushes were planted in a 32 hectare park area. Later on, the purpose was changed and studies were started to become a botanical garden, it was opened to visitors in 2002, and in 2003 it was named Nezahat Gökyigit Botanical Garden.
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Bakirkoy Botanical Park (Bakırköy Botanik Parkı)
Bakırkoy Botanical Park, built on an area of 96,000 square meters, was opened to service in June 2013. Another distinctive feature of the park is that it fully meets its energy needs with wind generators and solar energy panels. So the park meets its own energy needs. In order to prevent sound pollution that may occur due to being right next to the E-5 Highway, trees have been planted as sound barriers on the roadside of the park.
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Emirgan Grove (Emirgan Korusu Parkı)
Emirgan Grove is one of the richest parts of the Bosporus that has survived from antiquity. In the 17th century, IV. This greenery, which came to the stage of history with the gift of Iranian Prince Emir Güne Han, who was accompanied by Murat’s colleague, Iranian Prince Emir Güne Han, in the name of Feridun Bey Bahceler, after he changed hands several times over the centuries, after İsmail Pasha, who was the governor of Egypt at the end of the 1860s and it was used as the back garden of the big wooden palace built by it. Also, do not forget to take a look at other places to visit in Sariyer.
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Yildiz Park
Yıldız Park Grove, which is the biggest grove in the city with its 46 hectare area between Besiktas and Ortaköy, is also known as the green forest where the “Pan” in various historical sources plays the flute in the Bosphorus.
The Yildiz Park Grove, which was first mentioned in the records in the period of Kanuni Sultan Suleyman (1520-1566) and started to be known as “Kazancioglu Garden” at the beginning of the 1600’s, is also the place where the fairy tale “Ceraganegilenlari” was held in the tulip era. It is known that the trainings of Asakir-i Mansureyi Muhammad, which was established after the janissary organization was removed, in the grove, which also includes the Yildiz Mansion, is also held here.
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İsfanbul Theme Park
İsfanbul Theme Park is a beautiful place. Here you can have a good time with your children. There are fun places such as roller coaster and water slide. This is one of the biggest entertainment centers in the world.
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