Kesikköprü is a Seljuk bridge of 1248 that crosses the Kızılırmak twenty kilometres south of Kırşehir. It is one of the Seljuk bridges of central Anatolia, and its inscription records that it was built in 1248 by the atabeg İzzeddin Muhammed, in the reign of Keykavus, son of Keyhüsrev. The damaged three-line inscription sits on a stone base on top of the bridge.
Its name has a story: in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brigands cut the caravan roads at this crossing, and from that the bridge came to be called kesik kopru, the cut bridge. It lies on the historic silk road route and was built to link Kırşehir with Konya. It runs 400 metres long and six metres wide, with thirteen pointed-arched openings.
Getting there
- Access
- In the city centre.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kırşehir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -0.1 °C in January to 23.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (48 mm) and lightest in August (8 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
