Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont-Vieux
Rieux-en-Val, Aude, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont-Vieux : inscription par arrêté du 17 février 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/02/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Rieux-en-Val
- Département
- Aude
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.08091, 2.53487
- Mérimée reference
- PA00102876
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1777 map "19 Carcassonne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le pont se trouve sur l'ancien chemin de Carcassonne à Lagrasse, qui existait déjà au 12e siècle, et pourrait par conséquent remonter à cette époque. La tradition l'attribue aux Romains. L'ouvrage est en dos d'âne et se compose de trois arches d'inégales dimensions. Les arches reposent sur des culées à bec saillant.
English translation
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History
The bridge is located on the old road from Carcassonne to Lagrasse, which already existed in the 12th century, and could consequently date from that period. Tradition attributes it to the Romans. The structure is humpbacked and consists of three arches of unequal dimensions. The arches rest on piers with projecting cutwaters.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Croix de chemin en pierrecroix de chemin1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.