Pera Palace Hotel

Hotel Pera Palas, also French Pera Palace in Istanbul is one of the remaining great railway hotels of the period.

The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons- Lits, which operates a number of European luxury trains, including the Orient Express, made it to be set to 1900 to provide a reasonable accommodation to the destinations of their international connections for their clientele. In the last two decades of the 19th century, they therefore built through a subsidiary to a hotel chain. At this part, next to the Ghezirah Palace in Cairo, the Hotel de la Plage in Ostend, the Hotel Terminus in Bordeaux and Marseille, later the Grand Hotel des Wagon- Lits in Beijing and the 1892 by Turkish- French architect Alexandre Vallaury (1850 - 1921) built in the style of historicism in Istanbul's European quarter of Pera luxury hotel Pera Palas. The house, descended into the monarchs, heads of state and captains of industry is, with its facade in neo- Rococo and internal features largely intact ( The state is the eastern facade with the main entrance and many stone balustrades ).

1974, a tooth-conserving renovation was carried out. It has 115 rooms and 16 suites.

In 2008 the hotel was closed to renovate the building. The hotel re-opened in September 2010.

The Ataturk room (# 101) is now an exhibition room in honor of the founder and is located to the southwest with a view to Eminönü (old district of Istanbul on the " Golden Horn " located ).