Ponte Altinate

Ponte Altinate
Coordinates	45°24′32″N 11°52′43″E / 45.408904°N 11.878543°E / 45.408904; 11.878543Coordinates: 45°24′32″N 11°52′43″E / 45.408904°N 11.878543°E / 45.408904; 11.878543
Crosses	Brenta River
Locale	Padua, Italy
Characteristics
Design	Segmental arch bridge
Total length	44.40 m (incl. abutments)
Width	7.77 m
Longest span	12.29 m
Number of spans	3
History
Construction end	1st century BC
Ponte Altinate Location in Italy

The Ponte Altinate is a Roman segmented arch bridge in Padua, Italy. The late Republican bridge once spanned a branch of the Brenta river whose course is today followed by the street Riviera del Ponti Romani. The structure is located at the crossing with Via Altinate and, lying underground, completely obstructed from view by the modern pavement.

The rise-to-span ratio is 1:4 for the main arch and 1:3.7 for the two lateral ones, while the ratio of pier thickness to clear span is c. 1:5.^[1]

Close-by is the similarly inaccessible Roman bridge Ponte San Lorenzo which is open to visitors at fixed hours though.

References

↑ Galliazzo 1994, pp. 203–204 (No. 433)

Sources

Galliazzo, Vittorio (1994), I ponti romani. Catalogo generale, Vol. 2, Treviso: Edizioni Canova, pp. 203–204 (No. 433), ISBN 88-85066-66-6

Roman bridges

England	Chesters Bridge Piercebridge Roman Bridge Pons Aelius

France	Pont Ambroix Pont de Bornègre Pont Flavien Pont du Gard Pont Julien Pont sur la Laye Pont des Marchands Pont Serme Roman Bridge (Saint-Thibéry) Roman Bridge (Vaison-la-Romaine)

Germany	Caesar's Rhine bridges Roman Bridge (Trier)

Iran	Band-e Kaisar

Italy	Pons Aemilius Pons Agrippae Ponte Altinate Pons Cestius Pons Fabricius Pons Neronianus Pons Probi Pons Sublicius Pont d'Aël Pont de Pierre (Aosta) Pont-Saint-Martin Ponte d'Augusto (Narni) Ponte di Tiberio (Rimini) Ponte Corvo Ponte del Gran Caso Ponte Milvio Ponte Molino (Padua) Ponte Nomentano Ponte Pietra (Verona) Ponte di Pioraco Ponte di Quintodecimo Ponte Salario Ponte San Lorenzo Ponte Sant'Angelo Susegana Bridge

Lebanon	Leontes Bridge

Portugal	Ponte de Rubiães Ponte Nova da Cava da Velha Roman Bridge (Chaves)

Romania	Constantine's Bridge (Danube) Trajan's Bridge

Spain	Acueducto de los Milagros, Mérida Albarregas bridge, Mérida Alcántara's bridge Ávila's bridge Puente de Alcántara, Toledo Garrovillas de Alconétar's bridge Córdoba's bridge Aqüeducte de les Ferreres, Tarragona Mérida's bridge Salamanca's bridge Segovia's aqueduct Talamanca de Jarama's bridge

Syria	Bridge at Nimreh Gemarrin Bridge Kharaba Bridge

Turkey	Aesepus Bridge Arapsu Bridge Bridge at Oinoanda Constantine's Bridge (Mysia) Eurymedon Bridge (Aspendos) Eurymedon Bridge (Selge) Karamagara Bridge Kemer Bridge Limyra Bridge Misis Bridge Macestus Bridge Nysa Bridge Penkalas Bridge Pergamon Bridge Sangarius Bridge Severan Bridge Taşköprü (Adana) Valens Aqueduct Bridge White Bridge (Mysia)

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Ponte Altinate

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