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Mesi Bridge (in Albanian: Ura e Mesit) is a monument of Postribe Culture, located in Mes village (the bridge has the same name as the village), about 5 km northeast of Shkodra. It was built in the 18th century, around 1770, by Kara Mahmud Bushati, local Ottoman Pasha and spans the Kir River. It is the largest bridge in Albania that remains from the Ottoman period. The building was divided in 2 phases where the first phase was only the middle arc and the arc near it and the second phase included the other 11 arches. The bridge served mainly to connect two cities Shkodra and Drisht. It is 108m long, 3.4 meters wide, 12.5 meters high with 13 arches, and is one of the longest examples of an Ottoman bridge in the region. 

The bridge architecture is intriguing with round slick stones and stone plates.

Swimming and jumping into the clear blue water of the Kiri river is one of the activities tourists can do meanwhile enjoying the beauty of this place.  Drishti castle is the other main site on this activity, a medieval Albanian citadel and settlement. Many locals and tourists take bicycle tours around the area especially during springs and summers

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