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Beşiktaş is one of the favorite districts of Istanbul. With Taksim and Istiklal Street losing their former popularity, night and entertainment life started to shift to Beşiktaş. A new cafe/restaurant opens every day. If the subject of my article is Besiktas places to visit! Where are the historical places to visit in Beşiktaş, palaces in Beşiktaş, museums, parks, pavilions and much more are waiting for you in this article, happy reading!

Dolmabahçe Palace

Dolmabahçe Palace, It is the first place to be seen when it comes to Beşiktaş. I suggest you spend half a day with the Clock Tower, Harem, Selamlık, and the Palace Collections Museum behind it.

If you come on November 10, thousands of people who want to show their respect and love to Atatürk flock to Dolmabahçe Palace. You can also visit the room where our father passed away on November 10.

The cafe in the garden of Dolmabahçe Palace has a very beautiful view on the sea side, you don't need to buy a ticket to enter. You can also go for tea.

There is also a nice cafe inside the Palace Collections Museum. You can both visit the museum and benefit from the cafe with its secret, beautiful view.

Dolmabahce Palace Visiting Days and Hours

Dolmabahçe Palace is closed to visitors on Mondays and Thursdays, be careful when planning to go. It can be visited between 09:00 and 16:00 every day except Monday and Thursday. After 15:00, they do not accept visitors to the Harem, because it takes 1 hour to visit after entering. It is better not to be late to visit.

Dolmabahce Palace Entrance Fee 2019

You can see the Dolmabahçe Palace entrance fee 2019 schedule in the list below;

Selamlık (Full) 40 TL
Selamlık (Discounted) 20 TL
Harem-Glassed Mansion-Clock Museum (Full) 30 TL
Harem-Glassed Mansion-Clock Museum (Discounted) 15 TL
Selamlık-Harem-Glassed Kiosk-Clock Museum (Full) 60 TL
Selamlık-Harem-Glassed Kiosk-Clock Museum (Discounted) 30 TL
Palace Collections Museum (Full) 10TL
Palace Collections Museum (Discounted) 5TL

Tickets for Turkish Citizens are sold at a 50% discount.

Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque

Known as Dolmabahçe Mosque Bezmialem Valide Sultan Mosque, The mosque located right at the entrance of Dolmabahçe Palace. With the recent restoration, the already beautiful mosque has gained an even more well-groomed appearance. The architect of this mosque is Garabet Balyan from the Balyan family.

Beşiktaş JK Museum

If you are interested in football, located in Vodafone Park Beşiktaş JK Museum one of the must see places. The museum, which was opened as Turkey's first private sports museum in İnönü Stadium on 11 December 2001, was renovated during the renovation of the stadium and reopened in 2017.

Beşiktaş JK Museum Visiting Days and Hours

October-May period, between 10.00:18.00 and XNUMX:XNUMX, every day except Monday.
Between the hours of June-September, between 10.00:19.00 and XNUMX:XNUMX, every day except Monday.

The museum is closed on Mondays and on the 1st of religious holidays and on 1 January. Match days close two (2) hours before fans enter the stadium.

Beşiktaş JK Museum Entrance Fees 2019

Full: 25 TL
Discount: 15 TL (Children aged 6-14, students and teachers, over 65, groups over 15)
Free of charge: Children under the age of 6, Yellow Press Card, FIFA and TFF card, MMKD card holders, disabled visitors, veterans, relatives of martyrs and veterans

Maritime Museum

If you exit Dolmabahce Palace by the Palace Collections Museum, after 100 meters Maritime Museum there is. The Maritime Museum, Turkey's largest maritime museum, is one of the few museums in the world in terms of the diversity of its collections. It is a very nice museum, sometimes there are exhibitions in the museum.

Maritime Museum Visiting Hours and Days

Maritime Museum; Closed on New Year's Day, the first day of religious holidays and Mondays. The museum is open to visitors between 09:00-17:00 on weekdays and 10:00-18:00 on weekends.
No visitors are allowed to the museum after 16.00 on weekdays and 17.00 on weekends.
The Gift Shop is open every day between 09:00-12:30 and 13:30-17:00 except Mondays and Tuesdays.

Maritime Museum Entrance Fees 2019

Adult Entry Fee: 10 TL
Student Entry Fee: FREE
The Museum Card is not valid.

In addition, with the agreement between Beşiktak JK Museum and the Naval Museum, you can benefit from a 10% discount if you present your JK Museum ticket.

There is a restaurant called Bord at the entrance of the Naval Museum, you can go here without paying the museum entrance fee. I recommend it because it is in the heart of Beşiktaş but away from the crowds of Beşiktaş and it is a pleasant place inside the museum.

Barbaros Hayrettin Pasha Tomb

famous sailor Barbaros Hayrettin PashaThe Tomb of ' is located in the park that goes down to the pier next to the Naval Museum.

The tomb is open to visitors between 10:00-12:00, 14:00-16:00 every day during the week.

Akaretler Street

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When it comes to Beşiktaş Akaretler StreetYou can't miss to take a look. The region, which has increased in popularity with its many beautiful places opened recently, used to be a place that we can call the first lodgings in history where the employees of Dolmabahçe Palace lived. It is also mentioned as the first mass housing project in history with its row houses.

Akaretler Sıraevler was built by Sarkis Balyan in 1875 by Sultan Abdülaziz to be used as the lodging of the prominent landlords of the Dolmabahçe Palace. Again, an architect from the Balyan family took up the issue and put a lot of effort into Beşiktaş.

Surrounded by beautiful buildings, the street is home to many cafes and restaurants, a new venue opens every time I pass by, I can't keep up with the pace.

Ataturk House Museum | Akaretler Mustafa Kemal Museum

Akaretler Mustafa Kemal Museum, It was the house where Atatürk's mother, sister Makbule and his adopted son Abdürrahim Tuncak stayed between 1912-1919. It is said that in the house on Akaretler street, Atatürk stayed for a while before he set out for Samsun. Another feature of the house is that it is the first house Atatürk rented in Istanbul. The 3-storey house serves as a museum today.

Ataturk House Visiting Hours and Days

The museum is open to visitors between 09:00 and 16:00 on weekdays, and is closed on weekends.

Ataturk House Entrance Fees 2019

It is open to free visits.

Beşiktaş Bazaar and Eagle Statue

The place where Beşiktaş's heart beats, where crowds of people are always present, where you can find fishermen, cafes, restaurants, bars, glassware, furniture makers, whatever comes to your mind. Besiktas Bazaar.

The Eagle Statue in the middle of the square called "İçiköy", the center of Beşiktaş Bazaar. This is the point where the roads cross in Beşiktaş Bazaar, where fans gather and cheer before Beşiktaş matches.

After the Naval Museum, you can stop by Beşiktaş Bazaar for a coffee or a meal, and shop at the bazaars.

Breakfast Street

Although what to eat is a separate article when it comes to Beşiktaş, it is among the places to visit in Beşiktaş. Breakfast StreetI wouldn't have added the . Those who know Beşiktaş for a long time will also remember that there was no breakfast street in Beşiktaş in the past. There used to be a Cakmak Breakfast Hall and a Pando, which can no longer stand. Çakmak Breakfast Hall served breakfast to students for cheap, and Pando was famous for honey-cream. Now we have a street where the bagel fashion is on the move and various breakfast menus are flying in the air. If you're coming for breakfast, especially on weekends, my advice is to come a little early, otherwise it's very difficult to find a seat. I usually go to Limos because I like the atmosphere and decoration of the breakfast street. The content and quality of the breakfast you will eat is similar.

Linden Pavilion

If you have entered Beşiktaş Bazaar and dived into that crowd, you deserve to get some oxygen. If you are not lazy and walk towards Fulya, IHlamur PavilionYou will reach . A beautiful garden with two mansions awaits you in Ihlamur Valley. If you want, you can take a tea/coffee break in the cafeteria, or you can visit the Merasim Mansion Museum. I suggest you go, especially in the spring when the magnolias are in bloom.

Ihlamur Pavilion Visiting Hours and Days

Ihlamur Pavilion is closed to visitors on Mondays, and open to visitors between 09:00-17:00 on other days.

Ihlamur Pavilion Entrance Fees 2019

Adult: 20 TL,
Student: 10 TL,
Garden entrance: 5 TL.
The Museum Card is not valid.

Citizens of the Republic of Turkey get 50% discount on adult and student tickets, excluding garden entrance.

Sinan Pasha Mosque

Are there places in Beşiktaş that are always made by the Balyan family? Of course no. Sinan Pasha MosqueIt was commissioned by Mimar Sinan by the Ottoman Captain Deryası Sinan Pasha and decorated Beşiktaş as a work of Sinan. It also gave the district its name.

Ertugrul Tekke Mosque

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The mosque you see on the right as you go up Barbaros Street Ertugrul Tekke Mosqueis . In addition to the mosque built in the late Ottoman period, it was built as a complex consisting of a lodge, guesthouse, tomb, fountain and library.

star Palace

If you start going up Barbaros Boulevard from Beşiktaş beach, the district on the right is Yıldız. The first building of Yıldız Technical University is also here. star Palace, Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, Yıldız Clock Tower, Büyük Mabeyin Mansion are located in this region.

Mabeyin Mansion is currently under restoration. Hamidiye Mosque and Yıldız Clock Tower have just been restored, you can visit them.

Yildiz Park

If you continue from Beşiktaş to Ortaköy, Yildiz Park and the Malta Mansion and the Tent Mansion located in it are places where you can spend time in the forest and will suddenly tear you away from Istanbul.

Entry to the mansions or the park is free.

Little Mecidiye Mosque

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It is located at the entrance of Yıldız Park's Çırağan Street. Little Mecidiye MosqueIt was built in the baroque style. The architects of the mosque are the chief architect of the palace, Garabet Amira Balyan and Nigoğos Balyan. In other words, another one of the works left by the Balyan Family to Beşiktaş!

Feriye Palace

Feriye Palace is the old name of the Ottoman palaces stretching along Çırağan Street between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy. Feriye Restaurant, which serves as a restaurant today, Maritime High School and Galatasaray University buildings form the 3 parts of Feriye Palaces. Feriye Palaces, like many other works, were built by the Balyan family.

Ciragan Palace

Çırağan Palace, another important palace in Beşiktaş, is unfortunately not open to visitors as a tourist attraction. On the site of the building, which served as a hotel, there was a palace complex with a length of about 2 kilometers. We are talking about a complex between Beşiktaş and Ortaköy, which has a harem, a selamlık, outbuildings, separate sections for the eunuchs and their employees.

While the Çırağan Palace was being built, a Mevlevi Lodge was destroyed, so the people and religious scholars believed that the construction of this palace brought bad luck.

The palace, which suffered fires and occupations, even became the training ground of Beşiktaş football team in the 1930s. The training ground was later filled and used as a public pool. You can also see a photo of those years below:

Ortaköy

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In my first years at university, I think Ortaköy was the place I visited the most after Istiklal Street. We used to play okey on the beach, and walk around the stalls selling trinkets, I don't know how many times. By the way, let me tell you that I went to the university in Avcılar, for some reason we used to come here from one end of Istanbul.

OrtaköyVisiting the mobile stalls, having a photo taken in front of the Ortaköy Mosque, and eating kumpir are still the favorite activities of the tourists who come to Istanbul. And when you go on a Bosphorus Cruise, it's inedible.

BONUS: Beşiktaş Market

If you like to go to the market like me, Beşiktaş Market is set up behind the Marriage Office on Saturdays. Top floor clothing, bottom solid fruit/vegetable market. I like both the clothes and the vegetable part separately. There are many foreigners in the market, they have also discovered this place.

Of course, there are many more places to see in Beşiktaş. I wanted to summarize the most important ones in this article. If you have additions, you can add them as a comment to the article.

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