Description and location

Hidiv Kasn (the Khedive's Pavilion) takes its name from the Ottoman governors or khedives of Egypt , the last of whom, Abbas Hilmi Pa ş a, had the pavilion built in 1907 by the Italian architect Delfo Semmati in the then fashionable Art Nouveau style. With an area of 1,000 sqm set in gardens of some 65 acres the building stands on a hill on the Asian shore of the Bosphorus. An identical copy of the pavilion is to be found on the shores of the River Nile.

Meeting facilities

The pavilion can accommodate meetings of up to 1,350 people in the summer months, with cocktail facilities for up to 1,700. In the win­ ter, it can host meetings of up to 450 people, and cocktails for 700.

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