France - Pont Vieux in Montauban 蒙托邦的老橋

 

Stamp Issue : 1980-05-17 

Old Bridge (Pont Vieux) spanning the River Tarn has seven arches is a remarkable bridge of the early 14th century. This bridge located in town of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southwestern France.
King Philip the Fair of France officially launched the building of the bridge in 1303 while on a tour to Toulouse. The project took 30 years to complete, and the bridge was inaugurated in 1335. It is a pink brick structure over 205 meters in length, but while its fortified towers have disappeared, it is otherwise in good preservation.
The bridge is a straight level bridge, which is quite unusual for Medieval Europe, where lack of technological skills meant that most bridges were humpback bridges.

七拱老橋跨越塔恩河是座14世紀非凡的橋，位於法國西南部，南部-庇里牛斯大區的塔恩-加龍省省會蒙托邦鎮。
法國國王菲利普四世1303年巡視圖盧茲後正式啟動橋樑建設。橋梁工程歷時30年才完成於1335落成揭幕。它是一個長度超過205公尺淡紅色磚牆構造，除了炮樓已經消失外，其他各方面均保持良好。
這座橋是一條直線水平的橋樑，這在中世紀的歐洲是相當不尋常的，意味著其他大多數弓形拱橋肇因缺乏此技術所致。