Figure 23. Terrace Kiosk

2.3. Tulip Garden The Fourth Courtyard, which is the prestige place where the highest degree of privacy is held and the Sultan and his family live; which is far from monumental, compared to the other courtyard entrances, is located near the treasury room and is reached by using stairs and ramps in the 19th century. The Fourth Courtyard, also known as Tulip Garden; is surrounded by Baghdad mansion, Sofa mansion, Hekimba tower and is bordered by the Mecidiye mansion. Among the palace mansions dominating the view there is a pooled stone terrace, a fig garden where the lotus pool seen from this terrace and the elephant garden on its lower level which are open to the view of the pavilion's private mansions and pools in sets that the unique silhouette of Istanbul can be watched (Erdoan, 1958). Square shaped, carefully crafted marble fountain in the middle of the 14x15m sized pool located in the stone floor, which can be considered as the focus of the fourth courtyard, is the most p

The pergolas used to strengthen the relationship between the building and the wall in Turkish gardens and to decorate and revive the wall at the same time have been used to bring mobility to the courtyard as another part of the courtyard landscape. Unlike the other courts, the fourth courtyard, which is dominant in the Istanbul Bosphorus; trees that bring the texture of the Bosphorus such as ash, linden, elm, lote, oak, bay, judas and pear trees, as well as rose plants, hyacinths and lilies are used to create proper landscape design for this prestigious courtyard (Erdoan, 1958). With the stairway descends from the other side of the terrace, the Tulip Garden with a fountain pool on one side is reached. This garden mistakenly referred to as the Tulip Garden; bordered by Treasury departments and Mustafa Pasha Pavilion. This pavilion staircase descends to the imirlik mansion where the two pools are symmetrically located. imirlik mans

The bottom floor is surrounded by pillards and two small stone courtyards form on both sides of the stair. There is a large pool in the garden close to the mansion of Baghdad.