Guide
Kesikköprü crosses the Kızılırmak twenty kilometres south of Kırşehir. It is one of the Seljuk bridges of central Anatolia, and its inscription records that it was built in 1248 by the atabeg İzzeddin Muhammed, in the reign of Keykavus, son of Keyhüsrev. The damaged three-line inscription sits on a stone base on top of the bridge.
Its name has a story: in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brigands cut the caravan roads at this crossing, and from that the bridge came to be called kesik kopru, the cut bridge. It lies on the historic silk road route and was built to link Kırşehir with Konya. It runs 400 metres long and six metres wide, with thirteen pointed-arched openings.
