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The Puente de San Martín (English: St Martin's Bridge) is a medieval bridge across the river Tagus in Toledo, Spain. The Puente de San Martín features five arches, with the largest in the middle having a span of 40 meters. [1] Only very few bridges in the world were that long at the time of its construction.
The road over the bridge was the main road into Derby from the south until the 18th century. In January 1643, it was the location of the minor battle during the English Civil War. In the Battle of Swarkestone Bridge, the bridge was defended by the Royalists against the Parliamentarians, but the outnumbered Royalists lost the day. [2]
An uneducated shepherd, Bénézet (born c.1165 - died c 1184, feast day 14 April, patron saint of bridge builders) claimed that he was divinely commanded by Jesus in a vision to build the bridge at a point where the force of the Rhône was so great that it had discouraged even Roman engineers in antiquity. The bishop of Avignon, at first ...
The Xiao Bridge, constructed in 1470, has a free height of 7.2 meters with an arch thickness of only 20 centimeters, which is half the thickness of a typical arch. [28] It remains in use today, supporting contemporary traffic. Another noteworthy bridge from this period is the Gao-po Bridge, situated in Yongding and constructed in 1477. It has a ...
The old bridge over the Great Ouse.Both the modern steel footbridge to Godmanchester and the A14 flyover are invisible from the River Park and this angle.. The Old Bridge between Huntingdon and Godmanchester (now part of Cambridgeshire, England) is a well-preserved medieval stone bridge over the River Great Ouse.
Animation showing the operation of a drawbridge. A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat.In some forms of English, including American English, the word drawbridge commonly refers to all types of moveable bridges, such as bascule bridges, vertical-lift bridges and swing bridges, but this article concerns the ...
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The Trezzo Bridge was built between 1370 and 1377 by order of the lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti. [2] Fortified with towers, it provided access to the Visconti Castle high above the Adda. [ 2 ] During a siege in 1416, the condottiero Carmagnola deliberately caused the structure to collapse by weakening one of its abutments .