Divrigi
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Divriği is a town in northeastern part of Central Anatolia, on the edge of Eastern Anatolia.
Understand
Get in
By air
Nearest airport is located in Sivas, about 180 km or 3 hours away by road.By bus
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Divriği Nazar Seyahat
phone: +90 212 658 22 58 (Istanbul), +90 312 224 10 58 (Ankara)address: Esenler Otogar no:34Company 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.See
- 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).
Sleep
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Divriği Belediyesi Oteli
phone: +90 346 418 18 25Hotel run by the town council. Clean rooms with en suite bathrooms and balcony. No breakfast served.
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.
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.