The Pont Ambroix or Pont d'Ambrussum (French

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 for Ambrussum Bridge) was a 1st century BC Roman bridge

Roman bridge

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 in the south of France

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 which was part of the Via Domitia

Via Domitia

The Via Domitia was the first Roman road built in Gaul, to link Italy and Hispania through Gallia Narbonensis, across what is now southern France. The route that the Romans regularised and paved was ancient when they set out to survey it, so old that it traces the mythic route travelled by Heracles...

. It crossed the Vidourle

Vidourle

The Vidourle is a river in southern France, flowing into the Mediterranean Sea in Le Grau-du-Roi. Its source is in the Cévennes mountains, northwest of Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, at Saint-Roman-de-Codières. It flows generally southeast...

 at Ambrussum

Ambrussum

Ambrussum is a Roman archaeological site in Villetelle, Hérault département, in southern France.It is close to the modern town Lunel, between Nîmes and Montpellier...

, between today's Gallargues-le-Montueux

Gallargues-le-Montueux

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 in the Gard

Gard

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 department and Villetelle

Villetelle

Villetelle is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France.The Vidourle River crosses the commune.The Gallo-Roman archaeological site of Ambrussum is located there.-External links:*...

 in the Hérault

Hérault

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 department.

In the High Middle Ages

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, a chapel

Chapel

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 devoted to St Mary was added to the structure. Today, only one of the original five arches remains in the middle of the river.

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• Painting of the bridge by Gustave Courbet
  Gustave Courbet
  Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...