Misis Bridge
It is 27 km from Adana city center. It is located within the borders of Yakapınar Town of Yüreğir district in the east.
It is said that Mopsos, one of the Trojan heroes, founded the Mopsuhestia Ancient City. After the war, Mopsos came here and repaired the city from beginning to end, so the city began to be called Miopsusestia, which means the house of Mopsos, and this name changed over time and took the name Misis.
With the excavations carried out in Misis Höyük, the history of the settlement dates back to BC. It is documented that it dates back to the 7,000s. The mound was inhabited during the Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, Hittite, Iron Age, Hellenistic Period, Roman Period and the Middle Ages. The city has been an important center during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The city was established on the limestone ridge facing the Ceyhan River and on the east and west sides of the Ceyhan River. The bridge was built by the Roman Emperor Flavius Julius Constantius in the 4th century AD to cross the Ceyhan River with nine chambers. It was repaired by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century. In Misis, there are nine-eyed stone bridge connecting the city in the east-west direction, the walls in the acropolis, aqueducts, baths, rock tombs, the stadium in the north of the city, the remains of the theater in the south and Havraniye. Caravanserais belonging to the Seljuk Period are important works that have survived to the present day.
According to a legend about the bridge, it is rumored that Lokman Hekim, who found the immortality medicine, dropped the paper on which the formula of the immortality medicine was written, into the river while crossing the bridge and lost it.
