What is Gezi Park?

Halil Pasha Travel Park in location Artillery Barracks in 1806 as a two-storey main body bearing traces of the Russian and Indian architecture, onion domes and towers, looking in the corners of the three-story was an artillery barracks. Barracks building has seen a lot of war. Events of March 31 (1909) has been the headquarters of the rebels. The intervention of the army barracks during the events in motion that ended the uprising was suppressed by keeping the ball shot. Top unusable during a shoot-out junkie and a period from the barracks, the place was inhabited by homeless people.
Beyoğlu, Şişli gradually began to lose the function of the direction of the development of the barracks in Taksim, Taksim Stadium in 1922 under the name of the area by the construction of the stadium bleachers turned wood. Romania national football team's first official football match in Turkey, Travel Park is today, 26 October 1923, played in the stadium and the match resulted in a 2-2 draw.
Henri Prost urban expert in preparing development plan, Nisantasi, Istanbul Dolmabahçe rising Kadırgalar Valley (Harbiye Congress Valley) within the plan of making a large park, the authorities proposed trip, you must Taksim. Inonu stadium lost the function of the construction of the stadium and the ruined barracks, the Governor of Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar period in 1940 by Henri Prost yıktırılmasından been expropriated under the development plan prepared by the Istanbul park was the first Republican period. [1] Marble marble stairs railings , overlooking the Bosphorus in seating, benches, grass, trip's become a place where people often come and brought circulates. The construction of the park stairs, then some of the tombstones in the cemetery were destroyed Armenian Pangaltı was also used.
In 1944, overlooking Taksim Square Taksim trips for which the front (south) part of the time, but the president İsmet İnönü was built at the base of the statue on the sculpture not planted any time. After coming to power in 1950, the Democratic Party, the equestrian statue kept in a warehouse for a long time, at the end of söktürüldü pedestal, sculpture, and not to this park, Stony Macka Park have been planted. Taksim Gezi Park for a long time "Inonu Tours" was called.
Kışlanının after the destruction of the environment and regulations of the park in areas designated for hotels in the area covered by the contracted time. Despite this, the area was an important resting in the center of Istanbul, the regulations have changed in appearance and often. With an area of ​​38,000 m², Taksim Trip, was overhauled in 1991-92, the center of a rectangular park was built in a large pool of fountains.
Trip Park in the north of the playground and Taksim Taksim former Mayor Gazinosu'nun Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel are still in place. Street Soldier Center and Hyatt Regency hotels in the Divan is located on the opposite side. Travel Republic Street side of the park below, making use of the difference in elevation of a number of shops and art galleries, cafes and indoor aldmıştır its present form was built in 1967.