World: The oldest bridges still in use

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Besides the very first bridges made from improvised materials, vines, logs thrown over a stream or river, and stones piled into the riverbed, people began building real bridges a long time ago. Let's take a tour of the oldest bridges in the world.

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Visit the places in this collection and the stories around them. Say how many days you have and what you are into, and we put together a route through them, with a voice guide telling each story as you arrive.

World: The oldest bridges still in use

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The Arkadiko Bridge or the Bridge to the Barracks

Trajan's Bridge — the longest bridge of antiquity

Tarr Steps

Caravan Bridge (Turkish name: Kemer Köprüsü, Kervan Köprüsü)

Fabricio Bridge, also known as the Jews' Bridge or the Four Heads Bridge

Jendere Bridge or Septimius Severus Bridge

Pont du Gard (Roman bridge-aqueduct)

Alcántara Bridge (Puente de Alcántara)

Pergamum Bridge

Römerbrücke, Roman or Old Moselle Bridge

The bridge near Limira (in Turkish, Kırkgöz Kemeri, which means "bridge of forty arches")

Dezful Bridge or Roman Bridge, the oldest surviving brick bridge

Julien Bridge (Julius Bridge), in French Pont Julien

Tiberius Bridge (Ponte di Tiberio), Augustus Bridge (Ponte d'Augusto), or Saint Julian Bridge (Ponte di San Giuliano)

Milvian or Mulvian Bridge (Ponte Milvio or Ponte Molle)

The Bridge of Saint Angel (Ponte Sant’Angelo) or the Bridge of Hadrian

Flavian Bridge (Pont Flavien)

Pont sur la Laye or the Roman Bridge of Manosque (Pont sur la Laye)

Khoda Afarin Bridges: From Ancient Times to the Present Day

Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge)