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This list of bridges in Greece lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included.
With its arch of 40 metres (130 ft) width and 17.61 m (57 ft 9 in) height, [1] it was the largest one-arch bridge in Greece [2] [failed verification] and the Balkans, [3] [4] and the third largest one-arch stone bridge in Europe. [5] [failed verification] It also had two small auxiliary arches of 6 metres (20 ft) width on its two sides. [6]
The marble used for the arch is of a lower grade that had more inclusions than that used in the best Athenian buildings. The arch was constructed without cement or mortar from solid marble, using clamps to connect the cut stones. It is 18m high, 13.5m wide, and 2.3m in depth. Its design is fully symmetrical from front to back and side to side.
Hadrianic aqueduct, Remains of water bridge in Nea Ionia, Athens: Date: 16 April 2014, 15:33: Source: Hadrianic aqueduct, Remains of water bridge in Nea Ionia, Athens: Author: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany
The total length of all aqueduct arch bridges of the Aqua Marcia to Rome, constructed from 144 to 140 BC, amounts to 10 km. [8] Dimensions of a typical segmented arch of the Roman Bridge at Limyra, Turkey. The longest segmental arch bridge was the c. 1,100 m long Trajan's Bridge, whose wooden superstructure was supported by twenty concrete ...
Plan of the Ancient Agora of Athens in the Roman Imperial period (ca. 150 AD). The Stoa Poikile ( Ancient Greek : ἡ ποικίλη στοά , hē poikílē stoá ) or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens .
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
The Arkadiko Bridge is one of four Mycenean corbel arch bridges, which are part of a former network of roads, designed to accommodate chariots, between Tiryns and Epidauros in the Peloponnese, in Greece. Dating to the Greek Bronze Age (13th century BC), it is one of the oldest arch bridges still in existence and use. [citation needed]