The Ekmekçizade Ahmet Pasha bridge, also called simply the Tunca bridge, was built over the Tunca river between 1608 and 1615 by Ekmekçizade Ahmet Pasha, and its architect was Sedefkar Mehmet Ağa, the builder of the Sultanahmet mosque. It carries ten arches on eleven piers.
Half of it, together with the inscribed pavilion at its centre, was destroyed by flooding, and the bridge was restored to its original form in 2008. It stands on the Karaağaç road out of Edirne.
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- Climate
- Across Edirne as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.8 °C in January to 24.8 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (71 mm) and lightest in August (23 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
