Kadirga Park

Şehsuvar Bey Street led me to a small park in the southwestern part of Sultanahmet district, recently built on the site of an old wooden building. This quiet and cozy place is popular among locals, tourists rarely wander here.

Initially, this place was a natural bay of the Sea of Marmara, in which a harbor was built in the sixth century. In the middle of the eighteenth century, the harbor was filled in and the territory was built up with residential buildings. Some of these houses are still preserved around the square, but are gradually being demolished. Hurry up to see old Istanbul.

In the western part of the park is the ablution spring, built in 1781 by Esma Sultan Meydan Çeşmesi, daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid I. Unfortunately, for some reason I passed by this monument, in the photo it is visible behind the fountain.