Asansör ( Turkish for "

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", derived from the French word ''ascenseur'') is a historical building in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

Karataş Karataş (Turkish language, Turkish for ''black stone'') is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 862 km2, and its population is 23,499 (2022). The town itself has 10,293 inhabitants. It is o ...

quarter, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak. It was built in 1907 as a work of public service by a wealthy

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banker and trader of that period, Nesim Levi Bayraklıoğlu, in order to ease passage from the narrow coastline of Karataş to the hillside, the elevator within the building serving to carry people and goods through the steep cliff between the two parts of the quarter. In time, the small street that led to the building also came to be known under the same name, Asansör Street (''Asansör Sokağı''). In the 1940s, one of the residents of the street was the singer

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 centr ...

, who was to attain fame later. It was recently restored and since then, became one of the landmarks of İzmir. The street was renamed Darío Moreno Street in memory of the singer. Asansor View from Dario Moreno Street Izmir Turkey.jpeg, View of Asansör from Darío Moreno Street Asansor From Ground Level Izmir Turkey.jpg, Looking up at the Asansör tower Asansör (yandan).jpg, Asansör side view TR Izmir asv2020-02 img55 Asansör.jpg, Entrance hall TR Izmir asv2020-02 img52 Asansör.jpg, View from the top of the Asansör in

References

* Özkan, Timur
''Asansör, İzmir.''
Fotogezgin.com, 2008.

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