Avrasya Anı Evi ("Eurasian Memorial House") is a small museum in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl ...

, Turkey.

Geography

The museum is in the

Karataş Karataş ( gr, Μέγαρσος, Mègarsos) is a small city and a district in Adana Province, on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, 47 km from the city of Adana, between the rivers of Seyhan and Ceyhan, the Pyramos of Antiquity. The city of K ...

neighborhood of İzmir. At it is on the Darío Moreno street no 11 next to the big

asansör Asansör ( Turkish for "elevator", derived from the French word ''ascenseur'') is a historical building in İzmir's Karataş quarter, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak. It was built in 1907 as a work of public service b ...

(elevator) which connects the lower quarters of the city to the high quarters.

The museum

Darío Moreno David Arugete (3 April 1921 – 1 December 1968), commonly known under his stage name Darío Moreno, was a Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, an accomplished composer, lyricist, and guitarist. He attained fame and made a remarkable career centred ...

(1921–1968) was a well known Turkish musician of

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ish descent. The memorial house was actually his stepfather's house. Although Darío Moreno lived only a short period in this house during the 1940s, the popular name of the house is Darío Moreno's house. İzmir metropolitan Municipality decided to name the former 302 street which runs from the boulevard to asansör as ''Darío Moreno Street'' and a NGO named ''İzmir Kalkınma Platformu'' ("İzmir Development Agency" İZKA for short) established the museum. In 2009 two busts were erected; one of Darío Moreno and the other of Enrico Macias, an

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n born French singer who visited the museum.

References

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