Name

Puente Romano de Alcantara

Age

98 AD

At

River Tagus. Alcantara, Cáceres. Spain

Engineer-Architect

Caius Julius Lacer

Comments

This is the greatest roman bridge alive today. The biggest arch is upper 30 m. CJ Lacer wrote Pontem perpetui mansuram in saecula mundi, I leave a bridge forever in the centuries of the world. There is another famoust inscription: the definition of arch: Ars ubi materia vincitur ipsa sua. 

"El Kantara" means "bridge" in Arabic.

Typology

Roman bridge