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At the end of the arasta we turn left on Mimar Mehmet Ağa Caddesi,
where we turn left and walk back towards the garden between the
Blue Mosque and Haghia Sophia. Here we turn right onto Kabasakal
Sokağı, the continuation of the old bazaar street. This passes on its
left the Hamam of Roxelana and on its right the seventeenth-century
medrese of Cedid Mehmet Efendi and a nineteenth-century mansion
known as Yeşil Ev, the Green House. Both of the latter buildings were
restored in the 1980s by the Turkish Touring and Automobile Club.
The cells of the medrese now house shops where artisans specializing
in old Ottoman crafts make and sell their works. Yeşil Ev is now
an elegant hotel with an excellent restaurant, which in the summer
months spreads out into the very pleasant rear courtyard, a perfect
place to restore oneself after a long stroll around the First Hill.
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