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:For a list of all known Roman bridges, see List of Roman bridges
List of Roman bridges

The Roman empire were the world's first major bridge builders. The following list constitutes an attempt to list all known Roman bridges, many of which still survive to this day....
For the railway station in Wales
Wales

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, see Roman Bridge railway station
Roman Bridge railway station

Roman Bridge railway station is a request stop passenger station in the Lledr Valley on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction railway station to Blaenau Ffestiniog, which is operated by Arriva Trains Wales....


Roman bridges, built by ancient Romans
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
, were the first large and lasting bridges built.

Roman bridges were built with stone and had the arch
Arch

An arch is a structure that Span a space while supporting weight . Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture, but their systematic use started with the Ancient Rome who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of structures....
 as its basic structure.






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:For a list of all known Roman bridges, see List of Roman bridges
List of Roman bridges

The Roman empire were the world's first major bridge builders. The following list constitutes an attempt to list all known Roman bridges, many of which still survive to this day....
For the railway station in Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
, see Roman Bridge railway station
Roman Bridge railway station

Roman Bridge railway station is a request stop passenger station in the Lledr Valley on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction railway station to Blaenau Ffestiniog, which is operated by Arriva Trains Wales....


Roman bridges, built by ancient Romans
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
, were the first large and lasting bridges built.

Roman bridges were built with stone and had the arch
Arch

An arch is a structure that Span a space while supporting weight . Arches appeared as early as the 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian brick architecture, but their systematic use started with the Ancient Rome who were the first to apply the technique to a wide range of structures....
 as its basic structure. Most utilized concrete as well.

Built in 142 BC, the Pons Aemilius
Pons Aemilius

The Pons Aemilius is the oldest Roman stone bridge in Rome, Italy. Preceded by a wooden version, it was stone since the 2nd century BC. Once spanning across the Tiber , a single arch in mid-river is all that remains today, lending the bridge the name Ponte rotto ....
, later named Ponte Rotto (broken bridge) is the oldest Roman stone bridge in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
.

The biggest Roman bridge was Trajan's bridge
Trajan's bridge

Trajan's Bridge or Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube was a Roman Empire bridge, the first to be built over the lower Danube. For more than a thousand years, it was the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length....
 over the lower Danube
Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
, constructed by Apollodorus of Damascus
Apollodorus of Damascus

Apollodorus of Damascus was a History of Greece or History of Syria engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD....
, which remained for over a millennium the longest bridge to have been built both in terms of overall and span length. They were most of the time at least 2 meters above the body of water.

An example of temporary military bridge construction are the two Caesar's Rhine bridges
Caesar's Rhine bridges

File:Roman Pile Driver, Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Koblenz, Germany.jpgCaesar's Bridge across the Rhine, the first two bridges to cross the Rhine River, were built by Julius Caesar and his Roman legion during the Gallic War in 55 BC and 53 BC, respectively....
.

Typical characteristics

  • Many are more than 5 meters wide
  • Most of them slope slightly
  • Many have rustic work
  • The stonework has alternating stretcher and header courses ; i.e. one layer of rectangular stones is laid lengthwise, and the next layer has the ends facing outwards
  • Stones linked with dovetail joints or metal bars
  • Indents in the stones for gripping tools to hold onto
(Source - An endeavour to identify Roman Bridges built in former Hispania
Hispania

Hispania was the name given by the Ancient Rome to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula . When Rome was a Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into Roman provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior....
)

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See also

  • List of Roman bridges
    List of Roman bridges

    The Roman empire were the world's first major bridge builders. The following list constitutes an attempt to list all known Roman bridges, many of which still survive to this day....
  • Bridges in city of Rome
  • Roman architecture
    Roman architecture

    The Architecture of Ancient Rome adopted the external Greek Architecture for their own purposes, which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new architecture style....
  • Roman engineering
    Roman engineering

    The Roman Empire are generally famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments, although some of their own inventions were improvements on older ideas, concepts and inventions....
  • Roman technology
    Roman technology

    Roman technology is the engineering practice which supported Roman civilization and made the expansion of Roman commerce and Roman military possible over nearly a thousand years....


External links


  • - Technical investigation of Roman public works
  • - The second longuest mosque and a Roman Bridge with 17 arches Córdoba, Roman City(Spain)-
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