About This Project

The Mes bridge near the village of Mes was built in the 18th century, around 1770, by Kara Mahmud Bushati, the local ottoman pasha and spans the Kir River. The building was divided in 2 phases where the first phase was only the middle arc and the arc near it and the second phase included the other 11 arches. It is 108m long, 3.4 meters wide, 12.5 meters high with 13 arches, and is one of the longest examples of an Ottoman bridge in the region.
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