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The Besalú medieval bridge constitutes without doubt someone the more popular image of the population. It deals with of a composite construction for seven arcs that they were lofty by following a curious angular disposition, motivated probably for the use of the rocks of the bed of the river as foundation or base and pedestal. The bridge was originally built in the XI centuries-XII, but afterwards suffered diverse reforms and modifications. Truly, it is suspicious that your initial sketch was different to the current thing. Still in medieval time, in which the bridge makes good use of to retrieve to the travelers that used it to cross the river a toll, set oneself up as your extreme the acquaintance arcade as arcade of the Pont ( arcade of the bridge ), protected for a tower strengthened. Also it had to be reconstructed in the XIV century, with occasion of a great freshet of the river, and in the s. XVII, because found to him in enough wrong state. However, the worse moments of the famous bridge still were for arrive: in the century XIX wasted the tower of your central part and the arcade that gives access to the people to permit the step of the necessary machinery for the local industry, and during the civil war some arcs were blown up. In 1965 it take place the last –por the moment-restoration

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