Roman bridge of Ávila

Roman bridge of Ávila.

The Roman bridge of Ávila (in Spanish: Puente Romano de Ávila) is a bridge located in the city of Ávila, in Castile and León, Spain. Portion of the bridge are Roman,^[1] located on the Adaja River, opposite the Puerta de San Segundo City Gate. The city provide of this bridge on the Adaja River, which connected the Western's porta decumana with the bank.

The piers with starling are Romans built in early-1st century D.C., the rest of the bridge is Romanesque (11th and 13th centuries).

Description

It consists of five arches and four piers with starling, bow of boat shaped projection against the rising of the stream, Roman style, projecting spurs in the piers to contrary side to the sterling, preserving the west side abutment. The top of the bridge (road) is horizontal in the eastern half presenting the other half falling to west. The arches start from different height reaching its top at the same elevation, except the more amplitude, entirely remade, it appears lower.

Apparently the bridge was disabled, on an unspecified date, totally destroying the biggest arch and cut the rest, tears still clearly visible today. In this sense the more possible was that the disablement of the bridge had taken place in the same period of the Arab invasion to 711, it is also possible that the semidestruction of the bridge would have happened at any time of the Reconquista when, coming the swollen river , any Arab or Christian army would have believed necessary to get rid of their pursuers or cut off their retreat.

At the time of the Ávila's repopulation (11th century) on the granite Roman pillars, it was rebuild the bridge with sandstone from La Colilla, widely used in the Romanesque churches in Ávila, but little resistance to wear this stone it should require, to the 13th century a new repair was made, whose remains are probably the granitic rocks of the upper topped with a rounded parapet to the Santi Espiritu and Romanillos bridges's style, built on the Chico River.

References

↑ "Academic reports: Roman bridge on the Adaja River in Ávila" (pdf file). author: Antonio Blanco Freijeiro. cervantesvirtual.com

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)

Full list of Roman bridges

Coordinates: 40°39′26″N 4°42′32″W / 40.6572°N 4.7088°W / 40.6572; -4.7088

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