Miniaturk
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Beyoğlu / Istanbul , Turkey
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| opening | May 2, 2003 | |||
| surface | 60,000 m² | |||
| Website | www.miniaturk.com.tr | |||
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Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ′ 36 ″ N , 28 ° 56 ′ 55 ″ E
Miniaturk is an amusement park in the Turkish city of Istanbul on the European side in the Beyoğlu district . With an area of six hectares, the miniature park opened in 2003 is one of the largest in the world.
It lies at the end of the Golden Horn and is one of the city's tourist attractions. More than 105 miniature models in 1:25 scale from different epochs of the Anatolian region can be admired on a path on the site . The park also has a restaurant and a main building in which various merchandise items are offered for sale. The miniature buildings on display are signposted with multilingual information pillars.
Miniaturk was founded on May 2nd, 2003 as an open-air museum . The main entrance of the park is a little higher than the miniature models, from there you can see the whole amusement park. The most famous miniature models include many sights and important structures in today's Turkey such as the Anıtkabir , the Ataturk Olympic Stadium , the Topkapı Palace and Hagia Sophia or models of submerged structures such as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus or the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and many more other models. There are also miniature models of some sights outside of Turkey.
List of miniature models
All 105 miniature models of the amusement park are listed here and the locations in which the structures are located.
Egypt
Bosnia Herzegovina
Greece
Israel
Kosovo
- Meşhed-i Hüdavendigar ( Türbe of Murad I )
Romania
- Türbe by Gazi Ali Paşa
Saudi Arabia
- Adjjad Castle
Syria
- Damascus train station
Turkey
- Taş Köprü
- Monumental tomb on Mount Nemrut
- Houses of Yalıboyu
- Anıtkabir
- Augustus Temple
- Haci Bayram Mosque
- Building of TC Ziraat Bankası
- Parliament building of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
- Great mosque
- Green door
- Martyrs mausoleum
- Ahmed III. -Fountain
- Ahrida Synagogue
- Anadolu Hisari
- Ataturk Olympic Stadium
- Istanbul Haydarpaşa Railway Station
- Beylerbeyi Palace
- Bridge of the Martyrs of July 15th
- Chora Church
- Basilica Cistern
- Cumhuriyet Anıtı
- Çırağan Palace
- Darüşşafaka High School
- German fountain
- Dolmabahce Palace
- Profilo Shopping Center
- Eyup Sultan Mosque
- Istanbul Ataturk Airport
- Galatasaray High School
- Galata Tower
- Hagia Irene
- Hagia Sophia
- Hammam by Haseki Hürrem Sultan
- Main Post Office
- Kuzey Deniz Saha headquarters
- Hıdiv Kasrı
- Church of Mother Mary
- Kuleli Askerî Lisesi
- Küçüksu Kasrı
- Maiden's Tower
- Istanbul Obelisk
- Örme pillar
- Istanbul City Hall
- Rumeli Hisari
- Serpentine pillar
- Soğuk Çeşme Sokağı
- Summer residence of Sadullah Paşa
- St. Anton Church
- Dam of Kırkçeşme
- Sultan Ahmed Mosque
- Suleymaniye Mosque
- Theodosian Land Wall and Yedikule
- Topkapı Palace
- Türbe by Mimar Sinan
- Dolmabahçe clock tower
- Zeyrek mosque
- Safranbolu old town
- Hatuniye madrasah
- Doner Kümbet
- Türbe from Aşık Paşa
- Building of Yapı ve Kredi Bankası A.Ş.
- Alaaddin Mosque
- İnce Minareli Medrese
- Karatay Medresesi
- Mevlana-Türbe
- Muradiye Mosque
- Old town of Mardin
- Halil-ür Rahman Mosque and Balıklıgöl
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- a typical turkey highway
- Calendar steamship
- Ottoman warship from 1657
