Pont Serme

43°16′26″N 3°03′03″E / 43.273889°N 3.050833°E / 43.273889; 3.050833CarriesVia DomitiaCrossesEtang de CapestangLocaleNear Béziers, Hérault, FranceCharacteristicsTotal lengthCa. 1500 mLocation

The Pont Serme or Pons Selinus, later called the Pons Septimus, was a Roman bridge of the Via Domitia in the Aude department, commune of Coursan, Occitania southern France. The approximately 1500 m^[1] long viaduct crossed the wide marshes of the Aude River and the Etang de Capestang west of Béziers, surpassing in length even the Trajan's Bridge over the Danube. Today, few traces remain of the viaduct, other than its name, which has passed over to a nearby wine-estate called "Domaine de Pontserme " ^{[2] [3]}

See also

• List of Roman bridges
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering

Notes

Sources

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

External links

• Pictures of the Marches of Capestang once crossed by the Pont Serme Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.