Adapazari Attractions

The 19th century provincial town of Adapazari is situated 20km/12.5mi to the east of Izmit and close to the River Sakarya at the western end of a wide low-lying area (Adapazari Ovasi). It has assumed increasing economic importance as the center of northwestern Turkey's industrial heartland. The surrounding agricultural land produces potatoes, tobacco and hazelnuts. The town grew out of a weekly market on an uninhabited site ("adapazari", island market) and there is little of interest in the town. On the southern outskirts of the town the Justinian bridge crosses a now dried-up tributary of the Sakarya (Sangarios in antiquity). Measuring 450m/492yds it dates from Roman times (A.D. 560) and has twelve arches.