Stone bridges - medieval stone arch bridges

11th centuryEdit

  • Puente Romano / Puente Viejo, Córdoba, Spain (renewed by the Caliphate of Córdoba and after the Reconquista)

  • Puente de los Peregrinos, in Puente la Reina, Navarra, Spain (early 11th century)

  • Pont du Diable, Hérault, Fr (early 11th century)

  • Vieux pont de Limay, Yvelines, France (11th cent.)

  • Vieux pont de Limay in the 1910 flood

  • Drususbrücke across river Nahe near Bingen, Germany (early 11th century, rebuit 1772 and 1952)

12th centuryEdit

  • Steinerne Brücke, Regensburg, Germany (1146)

  • Steinerne Brücke

  • Malabadi Bridge, near Silvan, Turkey |- 38.6 m -| (1147)

  • Puente de Piedra, Soria, Spain (prior 1157)

  • Elvet Bridge, Durham, England, UK (1160)

  • Pont de la Margineda, Andorra (12th cent.)

  • Bridge over river Gartempe, Saint-Savin, Vienne, France (12th cent.)

  • Pont du Diable, Olargues, Hérault, France (12th cent.)

  • Bridge in Besalú, Gerona, Catalonia, Spain (12th cent.)

  • Pont Vieux de Béziers, Languedoc, France (12th, rebuilt 14th, 15th cent.)

  • Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge), Beijing, China (1192, rebuilt 1698)

  • Lions on Lugou Bridge

13th centuryEdit

  • Ancien pont de Poissy, Yvelines, France (ca. 1200, rebuilt many times)

  • Guyue Bridge, Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China (1213)

  • Werrabrücke, Creuzburg, Thüringen, Germany (1223)

  • Pont Saint-Bénezet, Avignon, France (13th cent.)

  • Ponte Vella, Orense, Galicia, Spain (1230++)

  • Alte Elsterbrücke|Plauen, Germany (1244 ++)

  • Old Bridge in Espalion, Aveyron, France (13th cent.)

  • Pont Vieux, Orthez, Pau, France (ca. 1254)

  • Pont Saint-Étienne, Limoges, France (13th cent.)

  • Pont de Chambonas, Ardèche, France (13th cent.)

  • Pont Saint-Nicolas de Campagnac, near Nîmes, France (1260)

  • Eurymedon bridge (Aspendos), Turkey (13th cent.)

  • Monnow Bridge, Monmouth, Wales, UK (1272)

  • Radcot Bridge, Radcot, Oxfordshire, UK (13th cent.)

  • Newbridge, Oxfordshire, UK (13th cent.)

  • Baibars Bridge, near Lod, Israel (1273)

  • Mmluk bridge, Yavne, Israel (1274)

  • Ponte Buriano, near Arezzo, Italy (1277)

  • Alte Lahnbrücke, Wetzlar, Germany (1280)

  • Puente del Diablo over river Llobregat, Martorell, Catalonia, Spain (1283)

14th centuryEdit

  • Stone bridge, Písek, Czech Republic (14th cent.)

  • Ponte della Maddalena, Borgo a Mozzano, Lucca, Italy (ca. 1300)

  • Vieux pont du Rhône, Pont-Saint-Esprit, Gard, France (1309)

  • Bridge in Frías (Burgos), Spain (14th cent.)

  • Brig o' Balgownie, Old Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (1320)

  • Pont des Trous, Tournai, Belgium (1329)

  • Lostwithiel bridge, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK (early 14th cent.)

  • Old Bridge, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, UK (1332)

  • Farndon-Holt Bridge, England/Wales, UK (1339)

  • Alte Nahebrücke, Bad Kreuznach, Germany (1332)

  • Tauberbrücke, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (ca. 1330)

  • Pont du Diable, Céret, Languedoc, France (1341)

  • Pont Grand, near Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France (1379 - 1583)

  • Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy (1345)

  • Ponte Vecchio, segmental arches

  • Alte Lahnbrücke, Limburg, Germany (1354)

  • Ponte Scaligero, Verona, Italy (1356)

  • Old Bridge, Carcassonne, Aude, France (ca. 1350)

  • Wakefield Bridge, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK (ca. 1350)

  • San Francesco bridge, Subiaco, Latium, Italy (1358/1789)

  • Old bridge over river Sorgues, Saint-Affrique, Aveyron, France (prior 1368)

  • Pont Valentré, Cahors, Lot, France (1378)

  • Puente de San Martín, Toledo, Spain (late 14th cent.)

  • Old Dee Bridge, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK (1387)

  • Shahrestan bridge, near Isfahan, Iran (14th cent.)

  • Guangji/Xiangzi Bridge, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China (14th cent.)

15th centuryEdit

  • Charles Bridge (Czech: Karluv most), Prague, Czech Republic (construction 1357 - 1402)

  • Charles Bridge, stone arch

  • Pont de Nyons, Nyons, Drôme, France (1409)

  • Bridge at Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK (1416/53)

  • Old Culham Bridge near Abingdon (1422)

  • Old Guard Bridge, Guardbridge, Scotland, UK (1419)

  • St Ives Bridge, St Ives, Cambridgeshire, England (1425)

  • Puente de Piedra, Zaragoza, Spain (1437)

  • Bridge over river Lima in Ponte de Lima, Portugal

  • Ponte del Diavolo, Cividale del Friuli, Udine, Italy (1442)

  • Bridge over river Hantes, Montignies-St-Christophe, Erquelinnes, Hainaut, Belgium (15th cent.?)

  • Baodai (Precious Belt) Bridge, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China (1446)

  • Lahnbrücke, Runkel, Germany (1448)

  • Old Bridge, Stirling, Scotland (15th cent.)

  • Clun Bridge, Clun, Shropshire, England (1450)

  • High Bridge, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (15th cent.)

  • Kadin bridge, Nevestino, Kyustendil District, Bulgaria (1470)

  • Ponte Sisto, Rome, Italy (1479)

  • Kamen most (Stone bridge), Skopje, Macedonia (15th cent.)

  • Clopton Bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (1480)

  • Puente viejo, Coria, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain (15th/16th cent.)

  • Untertor bridge, Berne, Switzerland (1489)

  • Dongmei Bridge in Luzhi near Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

  • Xi Shi bridge in town of Mudu, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

  • Canal bridge in Zhujiajiao, Qingpu District of Shanghai, China

Last modified on 14 January 2014, at 12:32