Ponte do Seda
Coordinates: 39 ° 12 ′ 58 ″ N , 7 ° 47 ′ 6 ″ W.
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| Convicted | Roman road Olisipo - Emerita Augusta | |
| Crossing of | Rio Seda | |
| place | Vila Formosa ( Portugal ) | |
| construction | Arch bridge with vaulted vaults | |
| overall length | 116.65 m | |
| width | 6.71 m | |
| Number of openings | 6th | |
| Clear width | approx. 9 m | |
| Pillar strength | approx. 3.5 m | |
| construction time | Period of Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) | |
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The Ponte do Seda is a Roman bridge near Vila Formosa in Portugal , around three kilometers north of Seda and 40 kilometers west of Portalegre , which spans the Rio Seda over a length of 116 meters . It is one of the best preserved Roman bridges on the Iberian Peninsula .
The ancient bridge was part of a 230-kilometer Roman road that connected Emerita Augusta (now Mérida) in Spain with Olisipo (now Lisbon) in Portugal .
The bridge consists of large-sized, embossed granite blocks . There are stream breakers on the mountain side of the five river piers. In the upper area of the pillars, there are window-like openings rounded at the top with small arches, as the Roman bridge Ponte Romana Alcanede once showed. These flood openings clearly structuring the facade give a clue for the dating of the bridge at the turn of the times. The six arches start just above the waterline. The drainage of the day water from the four meter wide roadway is carried out differently. On the mountain side, it is diverted via gargoyles . On the valley side, there are drainage holes in the parapet wall that drain into a channel that appears as a broad cornice when viewed from the bridge . This means that the roadway was originally curved.
literature
- Walter Trillmich , Annette Nünnerich-Asmus (ed.): Monuments of the Roman era (Hispania Antiqua, Bd. 8). von Zabern, Mainz 1993, p. 302, ISBN 3-8053-1547-3
- Colin O'Connor: Roman Bridges , Cambridge University Press 1993, pp. 107f. (SP17), ISBN 0-521-39326-4
- Vittorio Galliazzo: I ponti romani. Catalogo generale , Vol. 2, Edizioni Canova, Treviso 1994, p. 314 (No. 631), ISBN 88-85066-66-6
- Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 p. 125
Web links
- Antique fan: Ponte do Seda