Nevşehir Castle

“Come, let us bring some joy to this joyless heart / Let us go, my swaying cypress, come, to Sa‘dâbâd,” says Nedim. This merry poet of the Tulip Era sings of the revels at Sadâbâd, laid out on the banks of Kâğıthane in Istanbul. But how many of us know that the grand vizier seen as the architect of that era came from a small village in Cappadocia?