Perched high above a rugged canyon in southern Turkey, the Varda Viaduct is a striking relic of early 20th-century railway engineering. Built of hand-cut stone in the Taurus Mountains near the village of Hacıkırı (officially Kıralan), the structure carries a single-track rail line over the steep Giaour (“infidel”) Creek gorge. Its eleven massive stone arches—three […]