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Pont Saint-Benézet

Pont Saint-Bénézet, Avignon bridge
France, Avignon
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Pont Saint-Benézet

Pont Saint-Bénézet, Avignon bridge
France, Avignon
The Pont Saint-Bénézet goes from the Old Town of Avignon and ends in the middle of the Rhone. It was built at the end of the 12th century, but after that it was repeatedly destroyed, restored and rebuilt. Today, 4 spans and the chapel of St. Nicholas, created in the Romanesque-Gothic style, remain from the medieval bridge.

The Pont Saint-Bénézet is immortalized in the 15th-century folk song "Sur Le Pont d'Avignon" ("On the bridge at Avignon"), which every Frenchman knows today.

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Traveled 10 months ago
Rating 7
Unusual attraction
The original bridge, built from 1177 to 1185, was an engineering miracle that stretched out 900 meters with 22 arches. He connected the Avignon to the city of Vilnev-Le Avignon on the opposite bank of the Rona. The arches were designed to resist the strong currents of the Ron. But this did not save the bridge from constant floods. By the XVII century, the bridge suffered significant damage, and its maintenance has become more and more difficult. In 1669, catastrophic floods destroyed several arches, making the bridge impassable.→
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Traveled 12 years ago
Rating 8
Bridge that leads nowhere
According to legend, the bridge was founded by the shepherd boy Benese. He had a divine revelation that a bridge was to be built across the river Rhone. The inhabitants of Avignon reacted to his words with skepticism, but the boy picked up a piece of rock, which 30 strong men could not budge, and moved it to the place where the construction of the Saint-Benezet bridge began. And in 1185, nineteen arches of the bridge spanned almost 900 meters across two branches of the Rhone and became the gates of Avignon for those who arrived from the sea along the river.→
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