Maraşoğlu bridge is a stone bridge connecting two neighborhoods, Gavras and Yeni Mahalle, as they were called in the Ottoman period. It was built in 1865 by Vasilios Maraşoğlu, a member of one of the leading Greek families of Sinasos. The walls of the bridge, which has three pointed arches and is made of cut stone, is 16 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, have been repaired in different periods. Today, the bridge is used as the shortest way connecting two neighborhoods.
In the first line of the inscription on the bridge, there is an Ottoman inscription meaning “Marashoğlu Vasil who built it“; In the next six lines, there is the inscription in Greek: “Like a connection that connects two separate parts/I unite the two parts of a town./But also like the arch of a glorious victory/I immortalize the virtue of a dear fellow countryman./May the soul of Vasilios Maraşoğlu rest in peace“.
Where the bridge used to be, there used to be Dergos stream, a crevice about 2 km long and 4-5 meters wide. Over time, the people of the village left their houses carved on high rocks and built single and two-storey houses on the embankments along the stream. As people built walls, dams and connections, the beds of the stream became narrower and its edges rose. They also planted poplars and weeping willows in suitable places in the tea bed to provide firewood.
