La tour de briques de l’église Santa Anastasia des années 1400 s’élève au-delà d’un important monument romain à Vérone, en Vénétie, en Italie : le Ponte della Pietra (Pont de pierre) à dos d’âne qui enjambe la rivière alpine Adige. Le Pons Marmoreus original portait la voie romaine très fréquentée via Postumia reliant Vérone aux villes de l'extrême ouest et de l'est de l'Italie, mais s'effondrait souvent dans les inondations et fut reconstruit en partie en briques. Les troupes allemandes en retraite font exploser quatre des cinq arches en 1945. Le pont d’aujourd’hui, reconstruit dans les années 1950, a deux arches romaines en pierre orientale, deux arches vénitiennes du XVIe siècle et une arche occidentale reconstruite en 1298.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2GF2GHB
• Taille du fichier: 32,6 MB (1,6 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 4137 x 2754 px | 35 x 23,3 cm | 13,8 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 18 juillet 2010
• Lieu: Verona, Veneto, Italy

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Verona, Veneto, Italy: the 15th century brick campanile of the Church of Santa Anastasia rises beyond the western arches of the donkey-back Ponte della Pietra, the city’s oldest bridge and one of its most important Roman monuments. The first bridge to span the fast-flowing alpine waters of the River Adige here was probably made of wood. From 148 BC it carried the Via Postumia, the Roman road linking Genoa in northern Italy’s far west to Aquileia in the far east. The crossing, then known as the Pons Marmoreus, also gave Roman Verona’s citizens easy access to their east bank theatre. The Romans rebuilt the bridge in white Valpolicella stone, but it came under stress when the Adige was in full spate, collapsing in 1007, 1153, 1232 and 1239. Alberto I della Scala, lord of Verona, rebuilt the westernmost arch in 1298. In time, the structure, now known as the Ponte Pietra (Stone Bridge) gained an aqueduct and many wooden houses, huts, shops and taverns. A watchtower stood at either end of its 92.8m (304 ft) span. After a further collapse in 1503, the City fathers asked architect and engineer Fra Giovanni Giocondo to oversee yet another rebuild. After 1520, the bridge comprised the two eastern Roman stone arches, two rebuilt stone and brick arches, and the medieval arch of 1298. The east tower was demolished in 1801 and the city then cleared the homes, shops and taverns, declaring them incompatible with the bridge’s Roman grandeur. The Ponte Pietra’s turbulent history took a final turn as World War II ended in Europe. On 25 April 1945, as Italian partisans liberated Milan and Turin, retreating German troops detonated mines to blow up four of the arches; only the easternmost Roman arch survived. The bridge was rebuilt in 1957-9 after hundreds of the Roman stone blocks were dredged up from the riverbed and mixed with new or reworked stone to re-create the Roman arches. Much of the medieval brickwork was also recovered and re-used. D0624.A7464

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