God's Bridge or the Bridge of the Giants
God's Bridge (Bridge Natural Ponoarele) is the only natural passage functional national road crossed by DJ 670 Baia de Arama Drobeta Turnu-Severin Cave is a vestige of the bridge collapse resulted from its ceiling. It is the largest natural bridge in the country and the second largest in Europe (30 m long, 13 m wide, 22 m high and 9 m thick), but the world's only open road traffic (including heavy tonnage). As a petrographic structure it has a massive structure of laminated limestone in 1-2 meters jambs, the downstream arch where it is in a much better conservation state than upstream.
It is said from the elders that the Draco lived here, people praying to God to escape him. Then, Dumezeu, he struck his palm in the ceiling of the cave, where the Devil lived, who collapsed over the entrance. But the Draco escaped, coming out on the other side of the cave and clinging to the claws of Peak Cave Hill. The devil would then have climbed a rock that bears his name: The Rock of the Draco.
Another legend says that the bridge would have been built by God for St. Nicodemus to pass through Tismana after the people cast him out of the commune, putting a hen with his throat cut, a loaf and a knife into the trays, accusing him theft. By the year 1370, the monk was looking for a cascade that appeared to him in a dream and above which he had to build a monastery. From Ponoare he went to Tismana, where he built the monastery (Tismana). Before he left, he cursed the water of Ponorela, was without fish and swallowed the earth. And that's exactly what happened, because eight mills were built on it, and there is no fish in it.
Another legend says the bridge was built by Hercules.
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