Ishak Pasha Palace - Ishak Pasha Palace

I've been in this amazing palace and have a night there (they have a very simple rooms for visitors). The view over there is very beautiful and special.

Amazing Amazing place Historical and A palace and a mosque at the top of the mountain, the road is excellent

A truly wonderful experience set in a magical setting. I recommend everyone to visited this historic site when you get the opportunity. There is a small coffee bar outside where you can get a drink but there are no toilet facilties.

The view is amazing! Palace itself is mesmerising! You can feel the historical vibe from centuries ago. The doors, walls, windows... this place let you see the culture, the architecture that was protected for years! It's far from the city center but definitely worth visiting.

Great tourist attraction centre its amazing that the wall is stil very strong its more than 2000years old

Ishak Pasha Palace, one of the most beautiful works of Turkish architectural history, is located in Ağrı. İshak Pasha Palace, which took 99 years to build, attracts great attention from local and foreign tourists. “There is a lake at four thousand two hundred meters on the slope of Mount Ararat, they call it the Küp lake. The lake is the size of a threshing floor. It's very deep. A well, not a lake. All around the lake, namely the mouth of the well, the swivel is surrounded by red, sharp, sparkling rocks like a knife blade. Then the blue of the lake begins. This is a completely different blue... Gülbahar lost Ahmed in Cube Lake. Since that day, those who pass by Küp Lake see Gülbahar sitting on the shore of the lake, with her long black hair flowing like light on her back, her head between her two hands, staring into the deep blue water. Every now and then, Ahmet appears in Gulbahar's eyes in the waters of the lake, Gulbahar opens her arms and walks to Ahmed and says, "Ahmet, Ahmet!" he shouts. His voice echoes all over the mountain. The lake boils, Ahmet disappears, Gülbahar disappears, a small white bird comes and dips its wing into the deep blue of the water, and then the black shadow of a horse comes over the water." In his book The Legend of Mount Ararat, Yaşar Kemal describes the epic love between Gülbahar and Ahmed, who could not reunite, in İshak Pasha Palace.

One of the few palaces that are still extant from the Ottoman era other than that of Sultans in Istanbul. Builded in the 18th century in near mountain skirts that dominates the large plain, the palace reflects a hybrid architecture that consisting of both European Baroque and Seljuk-Persian influences. A must see attraction in the Eastern Anatolia.

İshakpaşa Palace, which is located 5 km from the town center. The palace is located on one of the hills of the famous "Cudi" mountain range, which makes it completely overlooking the town of Dogu Beyazit and Mount Ararat (the highest mountain in Turkey). To its southwest is the famous "Agri" castle, which dates back to BC. The construction of the palace was initiated during the rule of the Ottoman governor Gulak Abdi Pasha in 1685, but the rugged nature of the area extended the life of its construction to about a hundred years, and the matter was passed on to his grandson Ishaq Pasha, who bore the name of the palace. The palace is characterized by Ottoman architectural styles with touches dating back to the Seljuk era, and contains a mosque, a courtroom, a kitchen, a bakery, barns and bathrooms, and 366 rooms. It is considered the largest of its kind in the country after the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. While I was walking around the town’s streets, I was stopped by writing signs for some shops in Persian, and I learned, after I inquired from a resident, that the reason was due to the existence of a land crossing linking the Turkish and Iranian borders, which makes Doğubayazıt town a center for trade exchange, and the starting point for commercial convoys (trucks) to the rest of the Turkish cities. Note : The entry price is about 17 Turkish lira, and you have to pay it in cash, because payment by bank card is not there, so bring cash in order to enter