Pont Serme

Pont Serme
Coordinates	43°16′26″N 3°03′03″E / 43.273889°N 3.050833°E / 43.273889; 3.050833Coordinates: 43°16′26″N 3°03′03″E / 43.273889°N 3.050833°E / 43.273889; 3.050833
Carries	Via Domitia
Crosses	Etang de Capestang
Locale	Near Béziers, Hérault, France
Characteristics
Total length	Ca. 1500 m
Location

The Pont Serme or Pons Selinus, later called the Pons Septimus, was a Roman bridge of the Via Domitia in Hérault, southern France. The approximately 1500 m^[1] long viaduct crossed the wide marshes of the Orb and the Etang de Capestang west of Béziers, surpassing in length even the Trajan's Bridge over the Danube. Today, very little traces are left at the site, save for the name proper, which passed over to a village nearby.

See also[]

• List of Roman bridges
• Roman architecture
• Roman engineering

Notes[]

Sources[]

• O’Connor, Colin (1993), Roman Bridges, Cambridge University Press, pp. 99 (G12), ISBN 0-521-39326-4

External links[]

• Pictures of the Marches of Capestang once crossed by the Pont Serme Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.