Divrigi
Divriği is a town in northeastern part of Central Anatolia, on the edge of Eastern Anatolia.
Understand
Divriği is an ancient town, which was once a Byzantine site. By the 12th and 13th centuries, it was the capital of Turkic Emirate of Mengücek, and the remains of Great Mosque of 1229 and a citadel remain from the period.
Get in
By air
Nearest airport is located in Sivas, about 180 km or 3 hours away by road.
By bus
- Divriği Nazar Seyahat, Esenler Otogar no:34 (main bus station of Istanbul), ☎ +90 212 658 22 58 (Istanbul), +90 312 224 10 58 (Ankara). Company providing direct buses to Divriği from Istanbul and Ankara.
- Divriği Özlem Tur and Divriği Birlik provide minibuses from Sivas every hour.
By train
Divriği has a train station. Daily trains from Istanbul's Haydarpaşa station (Doğu Express, departing 8:35AM and arriving at Divriği 9:30AM next morning, 32.50 TL/seat, 26 TL/seat for students) and Ankara (Doğu Express, departing from Ankara 6:08PM, 20 TL/seat, 16 TL/seat for students; and Erzurum Express, departing from Ankara 1:30PM and arriving at Divriği 3:45AM, 22.50 TL/seat, 18 TL/seat for students) are available. Sleeper cars are available at Doğu Express. For more info, see Turkish State Railways webpage.
Get around
See
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- Great Mosque (Ulu Cami) and adjoining medieval hospital (Darüşşifa) are outstanding examples of Seljuk architecture and have been in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1985 . The Baroque style portal of this magnificent mosque is a real masterpiece of stonework. you can visit the Great Mosque only on Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 - 18:00 because of restoration works (May 2017).
Do
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Sleep
- Divriği Belediyesi Oteli, ☎ +90 346 418 18 25. Hotel run by the town council. Clean rooms with en suite bathrooms and balcony. No breakfast served. 20 TL.
Connect
The telephone code of the town is (+90) 346.
Go next
It's possible to move on further east to Erzincan, Erzurum, and Kars by daily trains.
If you are intend on a little bit of adventure, take the Taş Yol ("Stone Road"), a series of tight tunnels that took more than a century to complete high above the gorge of the Euphrates River, east to Kemaliye, locally known as Eğin, a beautiful old town on the Karasu River.