"Trajan's Bridge" Over Danube, One Of The Greatest Achievements In Roman Architecture
I'm lucky to be born in an area that has quite a few "pieces of history" from the Roman Empire that are accessible to the public, have almost two thousand years and none of them is more than 30 kilometers away from my home town. The one that I re-visited today is Trajan's Bridge or what's left from what it was one of the best architectural achievements of the Roman Empire and the subject for my post of the day.
"Trajan's Bridge (Romanian: Podul lui Traian; Serbian: Трајанов мост / Trajanov most) or Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube, was a Roman segmental arch bridge, the first bridge to be built over the lower Danube and one of the greatest achievements in Roman architecture. Though it was only functional for a few decades, for more than 1,000 years it was the longest arch bridge in both total and span length."
According to the Wikipedia dedicated page for Trajan's Bridge
As you may see the area looks pretty well and some restorations have been done to "all that" the Roman empire left us, besides our name, but it wasn't always like this. Communists haven't treasured too much this area and after the 1989 revolution the new political system is more crooked than the Communists, in my opinion. Thus for many years "history ate" a lot of this area. The former mayor of the city managed to use some European Funds and gave the place a clean look while creating a touristic attraction from it at the same time. There was some museum inside but it wasn't open unfortunately. I am pleased though with my short tour even without being able to enter the museum and hope you like the pics as well.
Thanks for attention and have a great day!
Adrian
The bridge pillar is kinda out of sight unfortunately for tourists and placed in an area not easily accessible near the railroad. A reproduction of the the bridge, as it was on the Romans time is placed quite visibly at one side of the town, the exit towards Timisoara.
Your pictures are great and I like that our ancient history is given some attention, and they are from the Medieval Citadel, renovated a few years ago.
Roman ruins ("Castrul Roman") are found inside the yard of the "Portile the Fier" Museum, probably around a kilometer to the East. I believe it's still closed for renovations, which is a shame; just like the Museum of Arts I might add.
Both fortifications were built, destroyed and rebuilt several times to protect against invasions from the East. Roman fortifications were abandoned after being destroyed for one last time, long time after the Roman Empire fell apart. That's when the Medieval Citadel was built.
Last time I went to the Portile de Fier Museum was about 25 years ago...
Thanks for the information added to the post.
Unfortunately I haven't been there for even longer. And when I wanted to go to see how things changed from what I remembered, they were/are renovating...
At least they are renovating... What they did with the remains of the bridge is pretty nice. The place is clean, has lights, some restorations took place as well. It's nice to go there once in a while or even recommend to tourists.
Hopefully they are. I've seen buses of tourists around town center, speaking German, maybe time has taught us that we have something to show the world.
Glad to hear that. We still have something to show. Not much but still...
Others make tourism where nothing is. We'll figure it out.
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