Alsancak is one of the only districts in the city that was not destroyed by fire in 1922. The district is gradually being restored with access for pedestrians only. Here, you'll find a highly refined Ottoman-style bourgeois area with elegant one- or two-storey houses painted in pastel shades and adorned with facades featuring attractive bow or guillotine windows worthy of the finest English colonial mansions. It is becoming an increasingly busy shopping district by day and the scene of a lively night life thanks to countless bars, restaurants and night-clubs.