This bridge does not stand where it was built. In 1998, for the construction of the four-track city railway at İzmit, it was taken down by decision of the conservation board and rebuilt 50 metres further downstream.
It was built over the Kilezdere in the Ottoman period, in the sixteenth century, originally with five spans and of cut stone. It is nine kilometres from the centre of Kocaeli, in the Başiskele district, and is reached by road.
Getting there
- Access
- Nine kilometres from central Kocaeli, reached by road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kocaeli as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 24 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (108 mm) and lightest in August (42 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
