The Yeşilırmak divides Amasya in two, yet the bridges that span it are what hold the town together. At the foot of Mount Harşena the castle, the royal rock tombs and the riverside houses line the north bank, while mosques, madrasas, the bazaar and the newer quarters spread across the south bank; the bridges joining the two banks have therefore always been the busiest crossings of everyday life in the town. Today eleven bridges cross the river in the town centre, and local people like to say they are strung along it like the beads of a necklace. The oldest of them goes back some eighteen hundred years, and together they carry the traces of the Roman, Danishmendid, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, lending the town centre the air of an open-air museum. Walking from bridge to bridge is thus a little like passing through the layers of Amasya's history. Since the building dates, founders and repair histories of the bridges are told in detail in the article "The Historic Bridges of Amasya: Alçak, Meydan, Kunç and Helkıs", here the bridges are treated as the stopping points of a walk that can be followed through the town.

The Direction and Logic of the Route

Coming from the direction of Tokat, the Yeşilırmak flows through the town roughly from west to east. The cutwaters on the piers of the Kunç Bridge, the projections that split the current, are built on the west-facing sides of the piers, which confirms that the water runs in this direction. The most natural walk, then, follows the flow of the river from west to east. Walking this way, one passes in turn the Meydan (Station) Bridge, the Magdenus Bridge, the Alçak Bridge, the Hükümet (Helkıs) Bridge and the Kunç Bridge. The modern bridges in between make it easy to move back and forth between the banks, so the walk need not be tied to one side of the river and can switch to the opposite bank whenever it suits.

The Amasya writer İsa Çolaker follows the same order in his essay describing the bridges as the "brides in a row" that encircle the town. He writes that a traveller entering the town from the Tokat road first sees the Çağlayan Bridge, followed by the Station, Magdenus, Alçak and Hükümet bridges, and that the walk ends at the Kunç Bridge on the way to Şamlar. Çolaker recommends seeing the bridges together with the riverside houses and finishing the walk by heading up to Amasya Castle, because in his view the very logic by which the bridges were built calls for climbing to the castle once the river has been crossed. Indeed, in the old layout of the town most of the bridges stood opposite one of the castle gates, and the road that crossed the river often climbed straight towards the castle's lines of defence.

The richest stretch of the route lies between the Meydan Bridge and the Hükümet Bridge. According to the site management plan prepared for Mount Harşena and the Pontic royal rock tombs, the Meydan Bridge marks the western edge of the Hatuniye quarter on the north bank and the Hükümet Bridge its eastern edge; to the north of the quarter lie the castle and the rock tombs, to the south the river. The same plan notes that the houses built on the walls along the riverbank, the bridges linking the river to the opposite shore, and the relationship of these bridges with the river and the town together create a landscape of high value. In this sense the bridge walk is a path through the very heart of Amasya's most characteristic scenery.

The Çağlayan Bridge at the Entrance to the Town

The first link in the chain of bridges is the Çağlayan Bridge, which stands about five kilometres outside the town centre, at the Eryatağı turn-off in the Helvacı quarter on the Tokat highway. Known locally as Çalak or Çalık, and in older times as the İltekin Bridge, it dates from the Danishmendid period and, with its masonry of cut stone laced with brick courses, its six wide arches and a length approaching seventy metres, it is one of the oldest bridges in the region. Its distance makes it hard to fit into a walk within the town, but for those arriving by car from Tokat it offers a short stop before entering Amasya. Çolaker also begins his bridge walk here, suggesting that after crossing the bridge's long, narrow walkway one should make one's way on towards the town. For those who want to begin on foot in the town itself, however, the real starting point is the Meydan Bridge.

Starting Point: The Meydan (Station) Bridge

Standing where Ziya Paşa Boulevard comes to an end and linking the Üçler quarter with the Station area, the Meydan Bridge is the western end of the route through the town centre. It takes its name from the castle gate that once stood opposite it, the Meydan Gate, while its present name comes from the Station area it connects. Built of cut stone, arched, and with a deck that rises gently towards the middle in the ridged style known as harpuşta, the bridge looks simple at first sight; yet on it a Seljuk foundation, a fourteenth-century stone body and the traces of later repairs all survive together. Because it is a short, broad bridge built where the river is at its narrowest, it long joined the town's main arteries. It is still a crossing with heavy traffic today, and Çolaker describes it as a bridge where people fish and which is coloured by plays of light at night.

There is one more small link between the Seljuk Sultan Mesud I, who is accepted as having built the first bridge here in 1145, and the starting point of the walk. The tomb attributed to Sultan Mesud I also stands in the Üçler quarter, in the garden of the Amasya Museum. This rectangular, iwan-type tomb has no inscription, but according to Hüseyin Hüsameddin and Mustafa Vâzıh efendis it was built in 1155. Calling at the museum and the tomb before setting out makes sense as a way of seeing where else in the town the sultan remembered as the bridge's founder left his name. Looking east from the bridge, the river winds towards the town centre between the riverside houses of the Hatuniye quarter and the mosque complexes on the south bank.

The Magdenus Bridge and the Sultan Bayezid Complex

Walking east along the river from the Meydan Bridge, one soon reaches the Magdenus Bridge in front of the Sultan Bayezid Mosque. Describing its position, Çolaker says that "when you have the Sultan Bayezid Mosque behind you, the bridge is in front of you." Also known locally as the Madenüs or Maydanoz (Parsley) Bridge, this crossing is the only bridge on the route open solely to pedestrians. For a long time a wooden structure, it was repeatedly damaged by floods and destroyed in the flood of 1968; it was replaced first by a pedestrian bridge with concrete piers and an iron deck, and in 2010 by the present concrete bridge. The fact that one of the castle gates was connected with this bridge suggests that the crossing follows the line of a very old road. The stories that the bridge was built in 1485 by Fatma Hatun, daughter of the Mevlevi Tâcîbeyzâde Sadi Çelebi, with money she had saved from selling parsley have not been confirmed by any document.

The Sultan Bayezid II Complex at the southern end of the bridge is the grandest group of buildings on the route. It was built in 1485–1486, on the orders of Sultan Bayezid II, by Prince Ahmed, who was then sanjak governor of Amasya. The endowment deed of 1496 states that the complex consisted of a mosque, a madrasa, a soup kitchen, a primary school and a bridge. The bridge named in the deed, however, is not the Magdenus; the complex's bridge stands on the Kızılırmak in the Osmancık district of Çorum. The mosque, madrasa and soup kitchen survive, while the school, said to have stood to the east of the complex, has not come down to us. The courtyard also holds a timekeeper's room, an ablution fountain and the tomb of Şehzade Osman. Each of the drums of the mosque's two great domes is pierced by sixteen windows, its wooden window shutters are fine examples of fifteenth-century kündekâri joinery, and the panels above the windows of the portico are decorated with blue-and-white tiles.

The site of the complex on the riverbank is no accident. The architectural historian Atlıhan Onat Karacalı notes that the area on the south bank where a Temple of the Mother Goddess had been built in the Roman period was used as an open-air prayer ground (namazgâh) under the Danishmendids and as a musalla under the Seljuks, and that this same area was chosen once again for the Bayezid II Complex in the Ottoman period. The two ends of the Magdenus Bridge thus stand on an old axis linking the castle gates with the religious and social centre that remained in the same place for centuries. Standing in the middle of the bridge and looking north, one sees at the other end of this axis Mount Harşena and the rock tombs rising behind the riverside houses.

The Hatuniye Quarter and Hazeranlar Street

Crossing the Magdenus Bridge to the north bank, the road comes out in front of the Köprübaşı Mosque at the point where it meets Hazeranlar Street. The first mosque here was built in 1748 by Ömer Paşazâde el-Hac Osman Bey, governor of Anatolia; repaired in 1882–1883, it fell into ruin over time, was pulled down in 1972, and the present mosque was built in its place. With its nearly square plan, hipped roof and sheet-metal minaret it has the look of a modest neighbourhood mosque, and the way it adjoins houses on its south and east sides reflects the narrow, dense fabric of the bridgehead. To the west of the lane running from the bridge up to Hazeranlar Street, at the junction of Hazeranlar Street and Şifre Street, stands the Çelebiler Bath. Also called the Altuntaş Bath after its present owner, it is entered by stepping down below street level and is still in use. The building was bought and repaired when the Bülbül Hatun Complex was founded and became part of the complex's endowment in 1511.

Hazeranlar Street is the backbone of the Hatuniye quarter and the natural path of the bridge walk on the north bank. Between the south side of the street and the river lies the Hatuniye Complex: this group of a mosque, a bath, a primary school and a soup kitchen has no inscription, but its endowment deed dated 1511 shows that it was built shortly before that year. The complex's bath, known as the Yıldız or Çukur Bath, is older than the complex itself, since its name appears in the endowment deed of Yakut Paşa dated 1409. Lit by the windows, lanterns and skylights in its domes and vaults, the bath still operates today. The two domes of the primary school in the northeast corner of the courtyard collapsed in an earthquake and were replaced by a hipped roof; the building is now used as an educational space where various courses are given. According to the site management plan, the Hatuniye quarter contains sixty-five registered examples of civil architecture and four street fountains, some of which still run with water.

The Hazeranlar Mansion, which gives the street its name, is the best-known example of the riverside houses. It was built by Hasan Talat Efendi, the defterdar (finance officer) of Amasya, and takes its name from Hazeran Hanım, who lived here for many years and who, according to some accounts, was Hasan Talat Efendi's sister. Its date of construction is given differently in the sources, as 1865 or 1872. Regarded as one of the best-preserved examples of nineteenth-century civil architecture in Amasya, with its four iwans and central hall, the mansion is now used as an ethnographic museum displaying clothes, carpets and kilims, kitchen utensils and women's jewellery of the period. One of its doors opens into the courtyard of the Hatuniye Mosque. The arched section at river level is a surviving example of the boathouses (kayıkhane) found in some of the riverside houses; it is known that people crossed to the opposite bank from these boathouses in small boats. As a reminder that boats as well as bridges once linked the two banks, the boathouse is one of the more curious stops on the bridge walk.

The Alçak Bridge

Heading east through Hatuniye, the road reaches the oldest and most photographed stop on the route, the Alçak (Low) Bridge. Built in the Roman period across the Iris, the present-day Yeşilırmak, to connect the ancient castle of Amasya with the quarters on the opposite bank, the bridge saw its arches buried beneath the fill over the centuries as the riverbed rose. People came to call it the Low Bridge because its deck had sunk so close to the water. In 1865 the governor (mutasarrıf) of Amasya, the poet Ziya Paşa, had new piers added on top of the old arches and so kept the bridge in use. The bridge thus became a structure of superimposed layers, with the additions of later periods rising above its Roman arches. At the end where the bridge met the town there once stood one of the castle gates; this gate, pulled down by Ziya Paşa, has not survived.

The deck of the Alçak Bridge is one of the best viewpoints in the town. In the site management plan, a picture taken from the bridge is used as an example of the buildings and historical layers that can be taken in at a single glance: the riverside houses sitting on the walls along the bank, the roofs of Hatuniye behind them, the royal tombs cut into the rock higher up, and the castle at the summit. Çolaker, too, writes that the bridge is one of the most trodden structures in the town, that it has become a natural town studio favoured above all by photographers and brides, and that for television and photo shoots it offers "the view of an ancient, vertical city." Because the bridge is a crossing used heavily by pedestrians, this view can be enjoyed without hurry.

For those who wish to climb to the royal rock tombs, the Hatuniye quarter is also the natural place to start, since the castle and the rock tombs form its northern boundary. The tombs and the ruins known as the Kızlar Sarayı (Maidens' Palace) are reached by a stepped path. The site management plan describes these steps as "long and tiring" and proposes building a visitor centre beside the ticket office where those who make the climb can catch their breath and find information. Those who wish to break off the bridge walk to make this ascent should set aside time for this part of the walk. Those who want to end the walk by climbing to the castle, as Çolaker suggests, can leave the climb until the end of the route.

Viewing the Riverside Houses from the Opposite Bank

The greatest reward of the bridge walk is that the riverside houses can be seen both from within and from across the river. These houses are lined up along the narrow, elongated strip of land between Mount Harşena and the river. Because the plots were laid out with their narrow ends at right angles to the river, most of the houses face the water. Their most distinctive feature is that they sit on the remains of the town walls: the height of the wall was used as the basement storey of the house, and sometimes balconies and windows were opened at this level so as to make more of the river view. The stone ground floors were given over to uses such as cellars and storerooms, while the upper floors, enlarged with timber framing, became the living quarters. The projecting bays turned towards the river and the south create a rhythm that moves in and out along the façades of the terraced houses, and on some houses rooms built on the roof that take light from three sides, called şahnişin, add further movement to this skyline.

To read these façades best, one has to look from the south bank of the river; walking along the south bank between the Magdenus and Hükümet bridges, one sees the whole row of houses from across the water. It is known that the larger block of each house, closer to the river, served as the harem and the smaller block, closer to the street, as the selamlık, while the courtyard between them, with its hearth and well, was the family's shared living space. Wooden waterwheels that once channelled water into irrigation ditches to water the gardens stood along the riverbank; only a few examples of these are preserved today, for nostalgic purposes. Because Amasya was one of the important centres of Ottoman silk production, the houses also had high-ceilinged rooms called böceklik in which silkworms were reared. The site management plan singles out the Hazeranlar, Yörgüçler and Mısırlılar mansions among the riverside houses.

The Hükümet (Helkıs) Bridge and the Clock Tower

After the Alçak Bridge the route reaches the town square and the Hükümet (Government) Bridge. Known in the past as the Helkıs Bridge, it marks the eastern edge of the Hatuniye quarter and, in the very centre of the town, links the seat of government with the bazaar. At the northern end of the bridge Ziya Paşa built the Government House in 1865; the building of the provincial administration still stands on this bank of the bridge today, in the Nergis quarter. The Nergis quarter, east of Hatuniye, continues the riverside fabric with its houses and streets and has seventeen registered examples of civil architecture. Built of wood and repaired several times in the Ottoman period, the bridge was rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1940. It is therefore one of the newest-looking bridges on the route, although a crossing is believed to have been in use at this spot since Roman times.

The clock tower at the northern end of the bridge is an easily recognised meeting point on the walk. The present tower was built in 2002 in the likeness of its predecessor, replacing the tower that Ziya Paşa had built in 1866 and that was pulled down in 1940; an effort was made to preserve the form of the old tower, with its square stone base, cylindrical brick shaft and wooden clock section. Çolaker writes that the bridge is the crossroads of the town's bureaucratic traffic, that together with the photocell-controlled water display on it and the lighting of the houses opposite it offers a broad panorama, and that it overlooks one of the stretches where the Yeşilırmak flows most briskly. This is also the crossing that Evliya Çelebi, in the seventeenth century, described as linking the castle's Sergis Gate with the Garibler Mosque in the town. It is worth noting as well that the four bridges ranged from the Meydan Bridge to the Hükümet Bridge lie within the boundaries of the site management plan prepared for Mount Harşena and the royal rock tombs.

Along the South Bank to the Kunç Bridge

After the Hükümet Bridge the route leaves the crowded town centre and stretches east towards the Kunç Bridge. On this part of the walk the south bank of the river is full of buildings from Amasya's Seljuk and Ottoman periods. Walking close to the bank, one comes across them on the way or a few steps inland. Foremost among them is the Darüşşifa, built in 1308 in the name of İlduş Hatun, wife of the Ilkhanid Sultan Öljeitü. Striking for its entrance façade, one of the most accomplished examples of stone carving, the building was an institution where patients were treated and physicians were trained. The Amasya physician Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin is known to have trained here and to have written his illustrated surgical treatise Cerrâhiyyetü'l-Hâniyye here in 1466. The building is now used as the Sabuncuoğlu Şerefeddin Museum of the History of Medicine and Surgery.

In the same stretch, in the Pirinççi quarter, stands the Mehmed Paşa Mosque, built in 1486 according to the inscription over its door. Its founder, Mehmed Paşa, was the lala (tutor-guardian) of Prince Ahmed, son of Bayezid II; his grave lies in the cemetery in front of the mosque. Its marble minbar is known for its fine workmanship. Near the mosque is the Mustafa Bey Bath, built in 1436 by Mustafa Bey, son of Yörgüç Paşa. Together with the Sultan Bayezid Complex at the head of the Magdenus Bridge, these buildings bear the marks of the intense building activity carried out in Amasya around the princely court at the end of the fifteenth century. On this part of the route the riverbank itself comes to the fore more than the bridges, and the walk enters the stretch where the distance between bridges is longest.

The Kunç Bridge and Şamlar

At the eastern end of the route, the Kunç Bridge links the Bayezidpaşa quarter with the Şamlar quarter. According to the common view, the bridge was built by Hundi Hatun, daughter of the Seljuk Sultan Mesud; the name Hundi is said to have become first "Kundi" and then "Kunç" or "Künç" in popular speech. The sources do not agree on whether Hundi Hatun was the sultan's daughter or his mother, nor on the exact date of the bridge, which has no inscription. Because it has carried the name of a woman benefactor for centuries, the bridge is a reminder that in Amasya bridges were seen as works of charity and remembrance as much as of transport. Its most striking feature is its wide arches of almost equal size, carried on three great piers. The cutwaters on the west-facing sides of the piers break the force of the current, and fragments of reused sarcophagi can be made out on the central pier. Also known as the Kuş (Bird) Bridge, the structure, unlike the other four bridges on the route, lies outside the boundaries of the site management plan prepared for the royal rock tombs.

The river widens at this point, and the bank is a resting place for various water birds, herons above all, and a favourite spot for anglers. Çolaker writes that the bridge makes a striking picture with its plays of light and that the mansions at the bridgehead have an atmosphere all their own. The Bayezidpaşa quarter at the southern end of the bridge takes its name from the mosque that Bayezid Paşa, emir of Amasya in the time of Sultan Mehmed I (Çelebi Mehmed), began in 1414 and completed in 1419. Built by the architect Yakub bin Abdullah, the mosque, with its cut-stone façades enlivened by marble and red limestone and the different decoration of each dome in its portico, is one of the most richly ornamented buildings on the route. In the same quarter is the Kumacık Bath, which the Kapı Ağası (chief of the palace gate) Ayas Paşa built in 1494 and endowed the following year to the Ayas Ağa Mosque.

Crossing the bridge into Şamlar, the walker meets two important buildings on the north bank of the river. The first of these, the Büyük Ağa Madrasa, was built in 1489 by Hüseyin Ağa, Bayezid II's Kapı Ağası in Amasya. Octagonal in plan, with twenty student cells, an arcaded courtyard and a projecting lecture hall, it is known as the first madrasa in Anatolia built to this plan; the same plan is said to have been used about sixty years later by Mimar Sinan in the Rüstem Paşa Madrasa in Istanbul. The nearby Ayas Ağa Complex, also called the Küçük Ağa or Şamlar Mosque, consists of a mosque, a madrasa and a primary school. The first mosque is known to have been built by the Danishmendid Melik Gazi and, after it collapsed, to have been rebuilt in 1495 by the Kapı Ağası Ayas Paşa. These buildings at either end of the Kunç Bridge carry the close of the walk away from the bustle of the town centre into the quiet setting of a residential quarter.

Evening Lights

The best time for the bridge walk is an outing that begins in the afternoon and ends towards evening. In the heat of the day one can make use of the shade of the bridges and of the trees along the riverbank, and as darkness falls the lights of the bridges, the riverside houses and Mount Harşena come on. The system lighting the rock tombs and the mountain was installed under a project prepared in 2009; the site management plan recommends that this lighting, applied in many colours, be converted to single-colour lighting appropriate to a candidate World Heritage site. The lighting on the Meydan and Kunç bridges, the illumination of the houses opposite the Hükümet Bridge and their reflections on the water are the main elements of Amasya's night skyline. The stone textures and arch forms seen on a daytime walk give way in the evening to a skyline sharpened by lights, and the bridges are among the most photographed parts of it.

Notes for the Walk

Because the walk between the bridges follows a level riverbank, it is not tiring; only the ascent to the rock tombs or the castle calls for a separate climb. The Magdenus Bridge is open to pedestrians only and the Alçak Bridge is used mainly by people on foot, while the Meydan and Hükümet bridges carry vehicle traffic. The route can be walked in a zigzag, crossing to the opposite bank at each bridge, or completed by going out along one bank and returning along the other; the second option lets one see the riverside houses both from in front and from across the river. Each bridge differs in the form of its arches, the texture of its stone and its height above the water, and these differences make it possible to read side by side the architectural language of the periods that built them. The bridges did more than join the two banks; they also shaped trade routes, urban culture and social life, and following the road that crosses them shows how the town grew over the centuries.

Of the eleven bridges in the town centre, four retain their character as historic structures. The Amasya researcher and writer Hüseyin Menç attributes the survival of these stone bridges through so many floods, earthquakes and disasters to the success of their architectural and structural calculations. The bridges also came through undamaged the floods that followed the rains that struck the region in the spring of 2026. The cutwaters built on the upstream faces of the piers break the force of the water, reduce the pressure on the piers and keep the debris carried by the river from damaging the structure. The site management plan also envisages an urban design project for the Hatuniye quarter, including lighting, rest areas and signposting, together with a pedestrian tour route and information panels linking the historic buildings with the town's other monuments. Once these arrangements are complete, the bridge walk will also form the backbone of the town's official tour route.

Chronology

Roman period: The Alçak Bridge is built to link the castle with the quarters on the opposite bank of the river.

1075/1076: According to the common view, the Danishmendid emir İltekin Gazi builds the Çağlayan Bridge at the entrance to the town.

1145: The Seljuk Sultan Mesud I builds the first structure of the Meydan Bridge.

12th century: According to tradition, Hundi Hatun builds the Kunç Bridge.

1308: The Darüşşifa is built in the name of İlduş Hatun.

1374: The Meydan Bridge, destroyed in an earthquake, is rebuilt in the time of Emir Şadgeldi Paşa.

1409: The bath of the Hatuniye Complex is mentioned in the endowment deed of Yakut Paşa.

1414–1419: The Bayezid Paşa Mosque is built.

1485–1486: Prince Ahmed builds the Sultan Bayezid Complex on the orders of Bayezid II; 1485 is also the date claimed for the building of the Magdenus Bridge by Fatma Hatun.

1486: The Mehmed Paşa Mosque is built.

1489: Hüseyin Ağa builds the Büyük Ağa Madrasa in Şamlar.

1495: Ayas Paşa rebuilds the mosque in Şamlar.

1511: The endowment deed of the Hatuniye (Bülbül Hatun) Complex is drawn up; the Çelebiler Bath becomes part of the complex's endowment.

1748: Ömer Paşazâde el-Hac Osman Bey builds the Köprübaşı Mosque at the northern end of the Magdenus Bridge.

1865: Ziya Paşa has new piers added on top of the arches of the Alçak Bridge and builds the Government House north of the Helkıs Bridge.

1865 or 1872: The defterdar Hasan Talat Efendi builds the Hazeranlar Mansion.

1866: Ziya Paşa builds the wooden clock tower at the northern end of the Hükümet Bridge.

1940: The Hükümet Bridge is rebuilt in reinforced concrete and the clock tower is pulled down.

1968: The wooden Magdenus Bridge is destroyed in a flood.

1972: The Köprübaşı Mosque is pulled down and rebuilt.

2002: The clock tower is rebuilt in the likeness of the old one.

2009: The lighting system of Mount Harşena and the rock tombs comes into service.

2010: The Magdenus Bridge is rebuilt as the present concrete footbridge.

2026: The historic stone bridges come through undamaged the floods that follow the spring rains.

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