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The Pont Ambroix or Pont d'Ambrussum (French for Ambrussum Bridge) was a 1st-century BC in the south of France that was part of the . It crossed the at between today's Gallargues-le-Montueux in the department and in the Hérault department.

In the High Middle Ages, a chapel devoted to was added to the structure. Only one of the original eleven arches remains in the middle of the river.

Ambrussum contains three archaeological sites of international importance: the Colline de Devès which was first occupied in 2300 BC and settled as an between 300 BC and 100 AD; the Roman on the which had hotels, a baths and industrial buildings; and the Pont Ambroix.

The bridge was sketched by Anne Rulman in 1620 and the drawing shows only four arches. An 1839 lithograph and a painting by (1857) show two arches.

The Vidourlades are violent floods on the Vidourle, in which the water flow increases from a minimum of 3 m3/s to over 3000 m3/s. Floods were recorded 8 October 1723. The floods of 18 November 1745 reduced the bridge from four arches to three. Further major floods occurred 6 October 1812, 21 October 1891, 21 September 1907. The floods of 7 September 1933 reduced the bridge from two arches to the one we see today.

The site was abandoned when transit patterns changed; the Via Domitia became less important and the community relocated to which better served a north–south transit pattern, but the bridge continued in use until the late Middle Ages.

The bridge is a Mérimée list National Monument No. PA00103057. The oppidum is Mérimée list National Monument No. PA00103760


See also
  • List of bridges in France
  • List of Roman bridges
  • Roman architecture
  • Roman engineering


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