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Spread across a wooded hillside above the Bosphorus in the Sariyer district, Emirgan Park is one of the largest and best-loved public parks in Istanbul, famous above all for its spectacular display of tulips each spring. The grounds were once a private estate, granted in the seventeenth century and passing through Ottoman noble and royal hands before being acquired by the city and opened to the public in the twentieth century, and three historic pavilions survive among the trees: the Yellow, the...