Albarregas Roman 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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A Roman bridge with origins in the first century B.C. that crosses the Albarregas River, a tributary of the Guadiana River. The bridge was been declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1912 and named a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Mérida Archaeological Ensemble" in 1993.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/257471
38.9238171, -6.34916095
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Puente Romano de la Puerta (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Puente romano sobre el río Albarregas (Spanish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Albarregas Roman bridge located near Emerita Augusta (unspecified date range)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 26 D3
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: N Emerita Augusta, over R. Albarregas. The Albarregas Roman bridge is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site assemblage of Augusta Emerita.
Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Albarregas Roman bridge: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/257471> [accessed: 28 March 2025]
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