Drama Bridge, Stone aqueduct in Paranesti Municipality, Greece
Drama Bridge is a stone aqueduct with multiple arches that spans across the landscape, connecting the villages of Nikiforos and Karyafiton in northern Greece. The structure was built originally to carry water from the mountains into local communities.
The sources describe Hasan's Bridge as a medieval or Ottoman stone aqueduct in the Drama area of Aegean Macedonia, east of the village of Nusretli and south of Gorno Šimširli, by the Drama–Buk road. No construction date is recorded; it is dated only to the medieval or Ottoman period. It appears in one version of the Turkish folk song "Drama Köprüsü".
The bridge appears in Turkish folk songs as Drama Köprüsü, connected to stories about Debreli Hasan, a historical figure from local tales. These songs remain part of regional culture today, showing how the structure lives in people's imaginations.
The aqueduct stands east of the village of Nusretli and south of Gorno Šimširli, beside the Drama–Buk road. It is reached by that local road; the structure sits at the foot of a hillside, with dry ground and scrub around its base, so approach on foot from the roadside.
The structure is known in Macedonian as Hasan's Bridge (Хасанов мост), while Turkish tradition calls it Drama Köprüsü, after the nearby city of Drama. It is a medieval or Ottoman stone aqueduct, built of complex masonry, with six arches still standing. It lies east of the village of Nusretli and south of Gorno Šimširli, beside the Drama–Buk road.
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