قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Old Bridge, Svilengrad

Mustafa Pasha Bridge or The Old Bridge is a 16th-century arch bridge over the Maritsa in Svilengrad, southern Bulgaria.
It was built in 1529 on the order of the Ottoman vizier Çoban Mustafa Pasha.
The bridge was the first major work designed by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan.
The bridge is 295 m long, 6 m wide and has 20 or 21 arches.

A flood destroyed some of the arches in 1766.
Reconstruction was completed in 1809.
The Ottoman army tried to destroy the bridge as it retreated from a Bulgarian advance after the Battle of Lule Burgas during the First Balkan War in November 1912.