Alcántara Bridge
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Nov 30, 2021 09:05 PM
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A six-span stone bridge over the Tagus river, also known as the Puente Trajan.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/257459
39.7226, -6.893
- Representative Locations:
- Location of bridge over R. Tajo at Alcántara (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Alcántara Roman Bridge (English, modern)
- Alcántara Bridge connection Tagus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Alcántara located near Alcántara Bridge (30 BC - AD 300)
bridge
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 26 D2
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: at Alcántara, over R. Tajo. Designed by Gaius Julius Lacer, it was completed after 102 A.D. and remains in use.
Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp, R. Talbert, Jean Luc PIROUX, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Alcántara Bridge: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/257459> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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