Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Via Domitia : Pont d'Ambrussum
Gallargues-le-Montueux, Gard, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le pont (également sur commune de Villetelle, dans l'Hérault) : classement par liste de 1840
- Protection dates
- 1840 : classé MH
- Type
- site archéologique, pont
- Main period of construction
- Antiquité
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Gallargues-le-Montueux
- Département
- Gard
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.71721, 4.15203
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103057
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1603 map "Languedock." (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1933, une crue du Vidourle a détruit une arche du pont romain suite à l'effondrement de la pile la plus rapprochée de la rive gauche. La voie romaine qui allait d'Italie en Espagne passait par ce pont, appelé Pont de la Monnaie ou Pont Saint-Ambroix. A la fin du 19e siècle, il comptait encore deux arches et quatre piles.
English translation
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History
In 1933, a flood of the Vidourle destroyed an arch of the Roman bridge following the collapse of the pile closest to the left bank. The Roman road which went from Italy to Spain passed by this bridge, called Pont de la Monnaie or Pont Saint-Ambroix. At the end of the 19th century, it still had two arches and four piles.
Nearby in the register
- Oppidum d'Ambrussumoppidumunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Tour médiévale, anciennement appelée tour romainesite archéologique1 mi
- Temple protestanttemple1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.