The bridge stands at Narlıdere village on the Bitlis-Baykan road.
When it was built and by whom are not known, because it has no inscription. Looking at the bridge's architecture and at the history of the area, the provincial directorate reports a widely held view that it dates from the late sixteenth or the seventeenth century, under the Ottomans — a view rather than a finding.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bitlis as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -4.2 °C in January to 23.1 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in March (196 mm) and lightest in August (7 mm). Long-term means for 2011-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
