Bridge near Limyra

Bridge near Limyra
The 4th arch, today half-buried. The exceptionally flat profile of the arch is evident.
Coordinates	36°20′56″N 30°12′23″E / 36.34887°N 30.20651°E / 36.34887; 30.20651
Carries	Pedestrian and pack animal traffic
Crosses	Alakır Çayı
Locale	Limyra, Lycia, Turkey
Official name	Kırkgöz Kemeri
Heritage status	None
Characteristics
Design	Segmental arch bridge
Material	Brick, stonemasonry and rubble
Total length	360 m (1,181.1 ft)
Width	3.55–4.30 m (11.6–14.1 ft)
Longest span	14.97 m (49.1 ft)
No. of spans	28 (once 27)
Piers in water	Today approx. 5
Load limit	30 t + 500 kp/m²
History
Construction end	Presumably 3rd century AD
Location

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The Bridge near Limyra (in Turkish: Kırkgöz Kemeri, "Bridge of the Forty Arches") is a late Roman bridge in Lycia, in modern south-west Turkey, and one of the oldest segmented arch bridges in the world. Located near the ancient city of Limyra, it is the largest civil engineering structure of antiquity in the region, spanning the Alakır Çayı river over a length of 360 m (1,181.1 ft) on 26 segmental arches. These arches, with a span-to-rise ratio of 5.3:1, give the bridge an unusually flat profile, and were unsurpassed as an architectural achievement until the late Middle Ages. Today, the structure is largely buried by river sediments and surrounded by greenhouses. Despite its unique features, the bridge remains relatively unknown, and only in the 1970s did researchers from the Istanbul branch of the German Archaeological Institute carry out field examinations on the site.