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Milli Saraylar

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Istanbul, Besiktas, Visnezade Neighborhood

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Istanbul, Besiktas, Visnezade Neighborhood
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Rating 5.0
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Level 16 Local Expert
January 28
A very atmospheric small painting museum with a beautiful courtyard, garden, and the famous carved gate to the Bosphorus. In the museum you will see works by European and Turkish painters, and of course, the pearl is the Aivazovsky Hall with 20 works unknown to us. Not all are marine. In January 2025, admission cost 450 lire (audio guide for free on passport), together with the Dolmabahce Palace 1,500 lire. There is practically no queue here, unlike in Dolmabahce. There is a nice cafe on site. We had a great day
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Level 5 Local Expert
April 21
On the territory of the museum, a small green courtyard with swans and ducks, beautiful flowers and unusual vines captured my heart. There is a small garden with a beautiful view of the sea from the front of the palace. The entrance cost on April 20 450 Turkish lira, as a deposit for a passport, they give you a Russian audio guide for free - they give you a card for your passport, which you return it to - the girl puts the passports in a special tray with you and gives you a number. According to the reviews, I thought it was a small museum, but I was wrong. This is a two-storey palace in each hall of which paintings by great artists of the court of the Ottoman Empire, as well as paintings by the rulers themselves, are hung. A separate place in the great hall is occupied by Aivazovsky's works - more than 20 canvases, and his works are also sometimes found one at a time in other halls. There are benches in the halls for relaxing - I used them very often) It took us 3.5 hours to take a leisurely walk through the garden and visit the museum, listening to all the audio recordings.
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Level 9 Local Expert
January 26
My main desire in Istanbul is to visit the gallery of Dolmabahce Palace. The first thing I felt was: Giddy with happiness and puppy delight! In silence, because January is not the season for tourists, I stayed to look at Aivazovsky's paintings. The gallery greets you with darkness, the paintings are spotlit, and you are immersed in a world of stormy waves and seascapes. Aivazovsky conveys light, water and atmosphere so that you can feel the cold breeze and the sound of the surf. It's not just art, it's magic that captures. Each painting is like a window into another world. It feels deeper than seeing pretty things.
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