Route
Water and Healing
Amasya is a river city. This route follows the water: the bridges built to cross it, the bathhouses that heated it and turned it into healing, the channel cut into the rock, and the hospital.
Stops
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Stop 1
Altuntaş Bathhouse (Upper Bath)
17th century (probably) · —
Bathhouse (hamam) Page ready → -
Stop 2
Kumacık Bathhouse
1494–1495 · Ayas Ağa, Lesser Agha of the Gate (Küçük Kapı Ağası)
Bathhouse (hamam) Page ready → -
Stop 3
Mustafa Bey Bathhouse
1436 · Mustafa Bey (son of Yörgüç Paşa)
Bathhouse (hamam) Page ready → -
Stop 4
Yıldız Bathhouse (Çukur Bath)
Before 1409 · —
Bathhouse (hamam) Page ready → -
Stop 5
Alçak Bridge
Roman in origin; 1882 · —
Bridge Page ready → -
Stop 6
Helkıs Bridge (Government Bridge)
Roman in origin; 1940 · —
Bridge Page ready → -
Stop 7
İstasyon (Meydan) Bridge
1145; 1368 · Mesud I; Şadgeldi Paşa
Bridge Page ready → -
Stop 8
Kunç (Kuş) Bridge
Seljuk period · —
Bridge Page ready → -
Stop 9
Madenüs (Mağdinus) Bridge
Roman in origin; 2010 · —
Bridge Page ready → -
Stop 10
Darüşşifa (Bimarhane)
1308–1309 · Anber bin Abdullah
Other monument Page ready → -
Stop 11
Ferhat Water Channel
Roman period (1st–2nd century AD) · —
Other monument Page ready →
Dates and coordinates
The dates here are a summary; where the sources disagree, this is shown openly on the stop pages. As for the coordinates: the location of all 11 stops has been verified from independent sources — OpenStreetMap, Kültür Envanteri or the monument's own record on the map; each stop's page says which. No provisional coordinates remain on this route.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence.