Divriği is a small, remote town in the mountains of Sivas province, on the railway between central Anatolia and the upper Euphrates country. It would be easy to pass it off as an old mining town if it did not hold one of Turkey's great medieval buildings.
The Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği is the reason to come. Its 13th-century stone portals are wildly carved, almost botanical in places, and UNESCO lists the complex as a masterpiece of Anatolian architecture. Above it, Divriği Castle keeps the older story visible: Byzantines, Armenian frontier politics, Mengüjek rule, and the hard geography of the Çaltı valley.
This is not a casual detour from the coast. Divriği rewards travellers already moving through eastern Anatolia, or anyone using the train as part of the experience. Add the Seyir Terası and the old stone bridge north of town, and it makes a full, memorable day.