Bridge · Wādī l-Ḥiŷāra
Puente del Henares
Today: Puente del Henares, Guadalajara
- Place
- Wādī l-Ḥiŷāra (Guadalajara)
- Kind
- Bridge
- Built
- 10th century
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Not checked
One of the few Andalusi bridges still standing in Spain and the oldest structure in Guadalajara: ashlar laid in headers and stretchers, more than 117 metres across the Henares. It was thought Roman until a 1940 study by Torres Balbás; it is now linked to the building works of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III, in the 10th century. The two arches nearest the town are caliphal; the fifth is medieval Christian and the other two are 18th century.