{"id":69941,"date":"2013-04-24T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69941"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T09:32:55","slug":"a-conservationist-effort-at-topkapi-palace-in-istanbul-brings-gardens-closer-to-their-ottoman-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/24\/a-conservationist-effort-at-topkapi-palace-in-istanbul-brings-gardens-closer-to-their-ottoman-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conservationist Effort at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul Brings Gardens Closer to their Ottoman Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69942\" alt=\"topkapi_istanbul\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/topkapi_istanbul.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/topkapi_istanbul.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/topkapi_istanbul-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fabled\u00a0<b>Topkapi sarayi<\/b>\u00a0of the Ottomans in Istanbul, Turkey, is seeing a revivalist effort at landscaping its gardens and reconnecting with scents of the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p><i>&#8220;Instead of bringing in roses from Europe, the gardens will boast roses from Anatolia, Dursun said, adding that the flowers would come from the southern province of Isparta. \u201cWe\u2019ve planted 10,000 flowers from Isparta in G\u00fclhane Park. The aim is to revive G\u00fclhane, which was a very important park in terms of rose water production.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more in\u00a0Topkapi Gardens to again Carry Fragrance of Ottomans<\/p>\n<p>Picture via worldalldetails.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0http:\/\/www.mimifroufrou.com\/scentedsalamander\/2013\/04\/a_conservationist_effort_at_to.html#yaiGP6ekOVMszdzf.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabled\u00a0Topkapi sarayi\u00a0of the Ottomans in Istanbul, Turkey, is seeing a revivalist effort at landscaping its gardens and reconnecting with scents of the past&#8230; &#8220;Instead of bringing in roses from Europe, the gardens will boast roses from Anatolia, Dursun said, adding that the flowers would come from the southern province of Isparta. \u201cWe\u2019ve planted 10,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[4795],"class_list":["post-69941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-topkapi-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}