The Roman bridge on the Guadiana river

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The Roman bridge on the Guadiana river

It can consider, of some mode, as the origin of the city and, in any case, the one which marks your sketch being prolongation of one of the main arteries of the colony, the Decumanus Maximus.The situation of the bridge is carefully selected in a ford of a river of the river it offers as fulcrum a central island that divides it in two river beds. The original structure did not offer the continuity of the current since were composed for two bodies of united arcs in the center for a solid area protected for a cutwater put a few 150 m upstream. The current structure date of the XVII century after a dated freshet in 1603 that wasted the cutwater proceeds to substitute the central part for other of arcade that, from that time on, gives you continuity to the bridge.This work of 792 in length m is one of the elders that it is kept of Roman time. Picture: Xauxa 2004 http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3 %A9rida_%28Espa%C3 %B1a%29

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