Come and enjoy the beautiful and colourful array of tulips in Emirgan park to celebrate the start of the 11th annual International Tulip Festival with other IWI ladies.

Emirgan Park is closely associated with the tulip, the traditional flower of Turkey, which gave its name to an era (1718-1730) of the Ottoman Empire. A special garden was established in Emirgan Park in the 1960s to revive the city's tradition of tulip cultivation. Since 2005, an annual International Tulip Festival has been organised here every April bringing the park to life with these beautiful flowers. There are 120 varieties of tulips, which are arranged in a truly spectacular way.

The park itself is well worth a visit with its decorative ponds and plants of more than 120 species. Nature lovers will find a vast array of rare plants and trees here, most notably Stone Pine, Turkish pine, Aleppo Pine, Blue Pine, Eastern White Pine, Maritime Pine, Japanese Cedar, Norway Spruce, Blue Spruce, Atlas Cedar, Lebanon Cedar, Himalayan cedar, Beech, Ash tree, Sapindus, Babylon Willow, Hungarian Oak, Colorado White Fir, Maidenhair tree, California incense-cedar, Coast Redwood and Camphor tree.

You can also enjoy many jogging tracks and picnic tables in the park as well as its three historic pavilions, named after their exterior colour as the Yellow Pavilion (Sarı Köşkü), the Pink Pavilion (Pembe Köşkü) and the White Pavilion (Beyaz Köşkü), which were restored between 1979 and 1983 by the Touring and Automobile Club of Turkey, and opened to the public as cafeteria and restaurant.

When reserving, please let Ayşe know what dish you plan to bring with you. The event will be cancelled if it rains.