The bridge beside Aralık village is in use by people on foot. It has no inscription; it was probably built in the eighteenth century.
It is 28 metres long and 2.4 wide, with a single span and a sloping roadway, and the span is emphasised by an arch in two stages. The arch is of regular cut stone and the rest of the bridge of rubble; the roadway is paved in rubble too, and the parapet walls are sound. Aralık is in the Borçka district of Artvin.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Artvin as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.8 °C in January to 21.3 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (87 mm) and lightest in August (29 mm). Long-term means for 1949-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
