Pont Serme
Coordinates: 43 ° 16 ′ 26 ″ N , 3 ° 3 ′ 3 ″ E
| Pont Serme | ||
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| use | viaduct | |
| Convicted | Via Domitia | |
| place | Department of Hérault ( France ) | |
| overall length | approx. 1500 m | |
| Status | destroyed | |
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The Pont Serme or Pons Selinus , later also called Pons Septimus , was a Roman bridge on the Via Domitia in the Hérault department in southern France . The viaduct crossed the marshland of the Orb west of Béziers and with a length of about 1500 m even exceeded the Trajan's Bridge over the Danube . Today there are hardly any traces of the structure left in the area, only the name of a village in the vicinity testifies to the earlier existence of the bridge.
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literature
- Colin O'Connor: Roman Bridges . Cambridge University Press 1993, ISBN 0-521-39326-4 , p. 99