Ponte Romana Alcanede
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The Ponte Romana Alcanede is a Roman bridge over the river Nede in Alcanede , a village halfway between Santarém and Porto de Mós in Portugal .
The small three-arched antique bridge has staggered semicircular arches. Two smaller ones on the sides and a large one in the middle are made of large vaulted stones and the total span is 18 m.
In the area of the pillars, there were originally window-like openings rounded at the top with small arches, as shown by the Roman bridge of Ponte do Seda . These flood openings give a clue for the dating of the bridge at the turn of the times. Two breakers protect the bridge's pillars. Due to the high apex, the roadway rises towards the middle of the bridge. A connection to one of the major Roman overland roads is so far unknown.
literature
- Colin O'Connor: Roman Bridges . Cambridge University Press 1993, ISBN 0-521-39326-4 , pp. 107f. (No. SP17)
- Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale . Vol. 2, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1994, ISBN 88-85066-66-6 , p. 314 (No. 631)
- Walter Trillmich , Annette Nünnerich-Asmus (ed.): Monuments of the Roman era . Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1547-3 , p. 302 (Hispania Antiqua, Vol. 8)
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Coordinates: 39 ° 24'58 " N , 8 ° 49'8" W.