Pont de Rochereuil, Poitiers
Date
Circa 1910
Creator
Location
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Poitiers is on the Clain river in west central France. The old town occupies the slopes and summit of a plateau which rises 130 feet (40 m) above the streams which surround it on three sides. There are quite a few bridges extant from the Medieval period: Pont Achard, on the Boivre, 1017; Pont Joubert, 1083; Pont Cyprien, on the Clain, 1101, and Pontneuf (or Pont de Rochereuil) to leading to the former Benedictine monastery of Montierneuf on the north side of the old town, 1087.
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