Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
Almost 80 years after the Dutch tulip mania, Lale Devri – the tulip era, occurred in the Ottoman Empire
Although the tulip arrived to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire, the passion for this special flower reached its peak in the Ottoman Empire only 80 years after the tulip mania shook up the Netherlands.
This period of incredible love for the tulip at the court of Sultan Ahmed III is called Lale Devri – the tulip era. It was a relatively short and peaceful period, famous by a special fondness of the high-class society for the tulip, which became synonymous to status, nobility and privilege and was traded for exorbitant prices.
The National Tulip Day in Holland is celebrated on the third Saturday of January
The tulip season in the Netherlands officially starts long before the gardens get coloured by…
In Persian mythology the tulip is considered to be the flower of love
The Persian legend of the red tulip tells the love story of Farhad and princess…
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and…
Tulips of tulip mania times are called broken and are illegal in the Netherlands
The capacity of tulips to change their colours and, after years of monochrome blooming, to…