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We are located in Ponte Buriano in the province of Arezzo> in Via dello Spicchio, 64/C.
A few hundred metres from the bridge with the same name.
THE PONTE BURIANO (the Buriano bridge)
The Buriano bridge is located on provincial road 1 “dei sette ponti”, it is important for its length (156 meters on seven spans) and for its history. In fact, it is one of the most ancient bridges and one of the few left undamaged by world war II.
A few meters down-river from this bridge, some archaeological artefacts were found, indicating the presence, in the Etruscan to late-Etruscan age, of a ford, which is a paved way, which could be crossed with carts when the river was shallow or dry.
In fact, this is where the river was crossed by the Cassia Vetus, the road that linked Arezzo's lucumonia with the one of Fiesole, continuing after this bridge along the ridge to Loro Ciuffenna.
Some believe that a roman bridge was located in this section of the river, which then widens into a plain, probably a swamp at that time. The existence of the bridge has been documented since 1203, although we do not know its efficiency at the time; anyway, we are sure that it was rebuilt in 1277, in a period of great expansion of the power of the city of Arezzo and of good relations with Florence, which was still a small town.
The bridge has undergone several repairs in the course of the centuries, because of damages from floods and also from the method of floating logs down the river; and has resisted under all kinds of loads to this day, including the tanks from the last war.
The Penne dam now sustains the water level under the bridge, kept constant in the middle ages by a fishing weir downriver, six kilometres downriver.
We are located in Ponte Buriano in the province of Arezzo> in Via dello Spicchio, 64/C.
A few hundred metres from the bridge with the same name.
THE PONTE BURIANO (the Buriano bridge)
The Buriano bridge is located on provincial road 1 “dei sette ponti”, it is important for its length (156 meters on seven spans) and for its history. In fact, it is one of the most ancient bridges and one of the few left undamaged by world war II. A few meters down-river from this bridge, some archaeological artefacts were found, indicating the presence, in the Etruscan to late-Etruscan age, of a ford, which is a paved way, which could be crossed with carts when the river was shallow or dry.
In fact, this is where the river was crossed by the Cassia Vetus, the road that linked Arezzo's lucumonia with the one of Fiesole, continuing after this bridge along the ridge to Loro Ciuffenna.Some believe that a roman bridge was located in this section of the river, which then widens into a plain, probably a swamp at that time. The existence of the bridge has been documented since 1203, although we do not know its efficiency at the time; anyway, we are sure that it was rebuilt in 1277, in a period of great expansion of the power of the city of Arezzo and of good relations with Florence, which was still a small town.
The bridge has undergone several repairs in the course of the centuries, because of damages from floods and also from the method of floating logs down the river; and has resisted under all kinds of loads to this day, including the tanks from the last war.
The Penne dam now sustains the water level under the bridge, kept constant in the middle ages by a fishing weir downriver, six kilometres downriver.
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