Pont Serme

Pont Serme
Carries	Via Domitia
Crosses	Etang de Capestang
Locale	Near Béziers, Hérault, France
Total length	Ca. 1500 m
Pont Serme

The Pont Serme or Pons Selinus, later called the Pons Septimus, was a Roman bridge of the Via Domitia in Hérault, southern France. The approximately 1500 m^[1] long viaduct crossed the wide marshes of the Orb River and the Etang de Capestang west of Béziers, surpassing in terms of length even the Trajan's Bridge over the Danube. Today, very little traces are left at the site, save the name proper which passed over to a village nearby.

Notes

Sources

• O’Connor, Colin (1993), Roman Bridges, Cambridge University Press, pp. 99 (G12), ISBN 0-521-39326-4 

See also

• List of Roman bridges
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering

External links

• Pictures of the Marches of Capestang once crossed by the Pont Serme
• Traianus – Technical investigation of Roman public works

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Coordinates: 43°16′26″N 3°3′3″E / 43.27389°N 3.05083°E / 43.27389; 3.05083