The bridge stands where the İstanbul–Edirne road crosses the Babaeski stream, known locally as Şeytan Dere, at the Lüleburgaz exit of Babaeski. It was built in 1633, in the reign of Murad IV, on the military and trade road running from Anatolia to the Balkans.
It is a masonry bridge faced in regular cut stone, built so that it is not damaged when the river floods.
Getting there
- Access
- Where the İstanbul–Edirne road crosses the Babaeski stream, also called Şeytan Dere, at the Lüleburgaz exit from Babaeski.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kırklareli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 3 °C in January to 23.9 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (70 mm) and lightest in August (21 mm). Long-term means for 1959-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
