Villetelle - Pont d'Ambrussum

An arch of a Roman bridge crossing the Vidourle near Villetelle. Built within the 1. century BC - and once consisting out of upto eleven arches, this bridge was part of the Via Domitia linking Italy and Spain. The ruins of the Roman Oppidum of Ambrussum are being excavated currently. When Gustave Courbet painted this bridge in 1857, two arches were left. The second one got lost in a flooding 1933 - so this is the last.