Puente de Salmantica

Today: Puente romano de Salamanca, Salamanca

Place: Salmantica (Salamanca)
Kind: Bridge
Built: c. 27 BCE to 79 CE
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The bridge of the Vía de la Plata over the Tormes, 358 metres long. Of its twenty-six arches, the fifteen on the town side are Roman; the rest were rebuilt after the San Policarpo flood of 1626. When it was built is not known exactly: it is placed between Augustus and Vespasian, though others put it under Trajan and Hadrian. It has been pedestrian since 1973.

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