VIA TRAIANA

Artifacts as old as almost two thousand years are left outside under the sun and rain exposure. These ones that I have photographed and uploaded to this @pinmapple post can be seen in Kladovo Serbia. All belong to the long-time gone and forgotten Trajan's Bridge that once bridged Serbia to Romania which was built, and used by the Romans in the time of the second war they had in trying to conquer Dacia.

Although I have visited Kladovo, Serbia, for many times in the past few years, it's the first time I got my eyes on the remainings of the Trajan's Bridge that were exposed outside of a museum. I went to Kladovo on Saturday, once again for lunch, and while having a stroll in town I stumbled upon these small pieces of history exposed in front of a museum and left to us by the Romans.

Why and when was Trajan's Bridge constructed?

Well...

Trajan's Bridge (Romanian: Podul lui Traian; Serbian: Трајанов мост / Trajanov most), also called Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube, was a Roman segmental arch bridge, the first bridge to be built over the lower Danube and one of the greatest achievements in Roman architecture. Though it was only functional for 165 years, it is often considered to be the longest arch bridge in both total and span length for more than 1,000 years.[1]

The bridge was constructed in 105 AD by instruction of Emperor Trajan by architect Apollodorus of Damascus, from Damascus, Roman Syria, before his Second Dacian War to allow Roman troops to cross the river. Fragmentary ruins of the bridge's piers can still be seen today.
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The bridge was used by the Roman army for transporting supplies into the Roman conquered territories and was situated a few kilometers downstream from the Iron Gates water dam and it was actually "bridging" the Serbian small town of Kladovo with the Romanian one called Drobeta-Turnu-Severin.

The structure was 1,135 m (3,724 ft) long (the Danube is now 800 m (2,600 ft) wide in that area), 15 m (49 ft) wide, and 19 m (62 ft) high, measured from the surface of the river. At each end was a Roman castrum, each built around an entrance, so that crossing the bridge was possible only by walking through the camps.
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We probably have some arch remainings like these ones in Romania as well, but honestly, I haven't checked at the museum from Drobeta-Turnu-Severin, I guess I'll have to do that in the future and I'll also have to visit the one in Kladovo from where I took these pics and have some more ;).

From my understanding, all the writings on these fragmentary ruins are in Latin language and as you can see in the pics, these are not quite readable anymore. They represent an important piece of history left to us by the Romans and I had to "chain them" on Hive.

I hope you guys like the photos I took at the museum and appreciate my efforts in digging a bit into the anals of history and extracting some valuable historical data :), and I promise to someday visit the museum and have a detailed post with the inside and more info on the topic.

Have a great one peeps and see you in the next post.

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian