Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont romain
Le Pouzin, Ardèche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le pont romain sur l'Ouvèze, en totalité (cad. non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 30 décembre 1998
- Protection dates
- 1998/12/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 2e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Pouzin
- Département
- Ardèche
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.75668, 4.74607
- Mérimée reference
- PA07000006
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1695 map "Les Estats de Savoye et de Piemont (southwest sheet)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ouvrage d'art vraisemblablement construit au début du 2e siècle après Jésus-Christ. Le pont franchit l'Ouvèze au point le plus étroit de son passage à travers le massif calcaire. Il est conservé dans sa quasi intégralité, et est encore en usage.
English translation
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History
A work of engineering presumably built in the early 2nd century AD. The bridge crosses the Ouvèze at the narrowest point of its passage through the limestone massif. It is preserved in its near entirety and is still in use.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.