The construction of the Roman Bridge over the river Tâmega started in the time of the emperor Flávio Vespasiano, in the year 78, and it was concluded during Trajan’s empire, in the year 104. Through it passed ‘Via Augusto’, which linked Bracara Augusta (Braga, Portugal) to Asturica Augusta (Astorga, Spain).
In the middle of the bridge, facing one another, there are two columns, commemorative of its construction, which had been moved from the original place. The one that is upstream is a replica of ‘Padrão de Trajano’ and attributes the authorship of the bridge to the aquaeflavienses (people of Aquae Flaviae). The other, downstream, is a replica of ‘Padrão dos Povos’ and it refers to the ten civitates that depended on Aquae Flaviae. The original was found in the river bed in 1980 and it is now in the Museum of the Region ‒ Museu da Região Flaviense. It dates from 79 AC., in the end of Vespasiano’s empire.
Nowadays, the bridge is pedestrian.
RNAAT n.º: 249/ 2023