Adana: kebab and the oldest bridge still in use

The city that gives its name to the famous spicy Turkish kebab, Adana also preserves a Roman bridge still crossed daily by cars and pedestrians.

The center, celebrated for kebab and the ancient Roman bridge still in use, is comfortably explored on foot.

The Taşköprü Bridge, built during the Roman era over the Seyhan River, remains one of the longest ancient bridges still in use worldwide for daily traffic.

A short walk away, the Sabancı Mosque, among Turkey's largest, impresses with its monumental dimensions constructed only in the 1990s.

Continuing on, you visit the Adana Archaeological Museum, which displays Hittite, Roman, and Byzantine artifacts discovered in the Cilicia region.

Toward evening, city center restaurants serve the celebrated Adana kebab, minced meat knife-chopped and spiced, grilled on flat skewers according to a protected recipe.

Authentic Adana kebab follows a recipe with protected designation of origin in Turkey, which even regulates the percentage of lamb tail fat required for proper preparation.

The Taşköprü Bridge, built nearly two thousand years ago, has remained functionally uninterrupted through successive empires to the present day—a rare case for infrastructure of this age.