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Bridge of Pontevea

Teo, Santiago, A Coruña

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Bridge of Pontevea

Monument · Teo, Santiago, A Coruña

A six-arch bridge over the Ulla linking Teo with A Estrada, built in the 16th century and rebuilt in the 18th; it lost an arch in the 1809 fighting against the French and was declared a Ben de Interese Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2017. For centuries the site was a meeting point of roads, trade routes and pilgrimage routes, and some historians link it to the course of a Roman road between Bracara Augusta and Lucus Augusti. The arch lost in the War of Independence was rebuilt in 1822, and the town council of A Estrada commissioned further repairs in 1845. It was the only crossing over the Ulla in this area until 1980, when a parallel bridge was built for the present-day road; in 2010 the Dirección Xeral de Patrimonio Cultural restored it and left it as a bridge exclusively for pedestrians.

Photo: Miguel Branco (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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