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Pont Neuf
The Pont Neuf, also known as Le pont Neuf, is the oldest standing bridge across the Seine in Paris, begun in 1578 under Henri III and finished in 1606.
Pont Saint-Bénézet
The Pont Saint-Bénézet, commonly called the Pont d'Avignon, is a ruined medieval stone bridge across the Rhône at Avignon, France, first built in the late 12th century.
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Pont y Cysswllt, is a navigable canal aqueduct in Wrexham, Wales, opened in 1805 and the longest and highest in the United Kingdom.
Ponte Apollosa
Ponte Apollosa (Ponte dei Molini) is a Roman three-arched Via Appia bridge at Taverna di Apollosa near Benevento, Italy, crossing the torrente Corvo; about 26 m long, possibly Severan-restored in 198 CE, WWII-destroyed, closed for stability in 2026.
Ponte Cardona
Ponte Cardona, at Narni, Umbria, is the fourth and last Roman bridge of the Formina aqueduct, a single-arch travertine aqueduct bridge over the fosso dei Collari, distinct from Spanish and Welsh namesakes.
Ponte dell'Abbadia
Ponte dell'Abbadia, also Ponte della Badia, Ponte del Diavolo, or Ponte dell'Arcobaleno, is a stratified Etruscan-Roman-medieval arch bridge over the Fiora at Vulci, Viterbo, with a 20 m main span, damaged by 2012 floods and restored by 2023.
Ponte della Maddalena
Ponte della Maddalena, also called Ponte del Diavolo (Devil's Bridge), is an 11th-century stone arch bridge over the Serchio river at Borgo a Mozzano, Lucca, Tuscany, with a 38 m main arch and three smaller asymmetric arches.
Ponte della Rocca, Blera
Ponte della Rocca, Blera: single-arch Roman tuff bridge (about 7.5 m high) on the Via Clodia over the Rio Canale near Blera, Viterbo; dated 2nd century BC, built partly with stone from the Pian del Vescovo Etruscan necropolis.
Ponte di Pioraco
Ponte di Pioraco, or Ponte Marmone, a stone bridge over the Potenza at Pioraco, Macerata, Marche; traditionally a Roman bridge of the Augustan age on a via Flaminia branch, though a regional catalog dates it to the 13th-14th centuries.
Ponte di Pogi
Ponte di Pogi (Pogi Bridge) is a five-arch humpback stone bridge over the Ambra at Pogi, Bucine, Arezzo, Tuscany; a medieval bridge on Roman via Cassia piers, restored in 2012, walkable only on foot.
Ponte di Traiano at Tor Tre Ponti
Ponte di Traiano (Trajan's Bridge) at Tor Tre Ponti is a Roman bridge on the Via Appia near Latina, Italy, built under Nerva and Trajan around AD 97.
Ponte di Vallerano
Ponte di Vallerano: Roman bridge in Rome's Tor di Valle area, also called Ponte romano della via Ostiense, carrying the ancient via Ostiensis over the fosso di Vallerano, a left-bank Tiber tributary; three-arched, dated 2nd century BC by Italian sources, hidden beneath the via del Mare and visible only from a cycle path.
Ponte Ezzu
Ponte Ezzu (Pont'Ezzu, "old bridge") names two Roman-founded medieval bridges in Sardinia: a six-arch, 88 m bridge on the Riu Mannu near Ozieri and a three-arch, 35 m Tirso bridge near Illorai.
Ponte Fabio Massimo
Ponte Fabio Massimo, or Ponte del Diavolo, is an ancient Samnite and Roman bridge over the Titerno river at Faicchio, Benevento, Campania: 12 m long, 13 m high, three asymmetrical arches, linked by legend to Fabius Maximus and Hannibal, restored in 2008.
Ponte Grosso
Ponte Grosso, two Roman Augustan-era stone bridges on the old Via Flaminia near Cantiano, Marche, Italy, over the Fosso della Scheggia and the Burano; also a name of an Emilia-Romagna geological formation and a Parma Apennines bridge.
Ponte Ladrone
Ponte Ladrone names two Roman bridges: a Trajanic Via Traiana bridge-viaduct over the Ferrara ditch at Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte (Benevento), and an 11-arch 174 BC bridge on the Via Ostiensis at Acilia, buried in 1982.
Ponte Lucano Roman Bridge
Ponte Lucano (Pons Lucanus), Roman bridge on the Via Tiburtina over the Aniene at Tivoli, 24 km from Rome; five travertine arches, cut by Totila, restored by Narses, beside the Mausoleum of the Plautii.
Ponte Milvio
Ponte Milvio, or Pons Mulvius, is an ancient Roman bridge over the Tiber in northern Rome, site of Constantine's decisive victory over Maxentius in 312 AD.
Ponte Morandi
Ponte Morandi, also known as the Morandi Bridge or Viadotto Polcevera, was a cable-stayed highway viaduct in Genoa, Italy, opened in 1967 and designed by Riccardo Morandi.
Ponte Navea
Ponte Navea (Ponte de Navea) is a medieval single pointed-arch stone bridge over the Navea river between San Xoán de Río and A Pobra de Trives, Ourense, Galicia, built on Roman remains of the Via Nova (Via XVIII), declared Ben de Interés Cultural in 1991.
Ponte Romito
Ponte Romito, also called Ponte del Romito or ponte di Valle, is an ancient Etruscan-Roman bridge over the Arno at Laterina, Tuscany; in 2023 it was proposed as the bridge in the Mona Lisa.
Ponte Rotto
Ponte Rotto, the Broken Bridge, is the surviving single arch of the Pons Aemilius (Ponte Emilio), Rome's oldest masonry bridge, begun 179 BC and reduced to one span by the 1598 Tiber flood.
Ponte Salario
Ponte Salario, the ancient pons Anienis, is a Roman bridge on the Via Salaria over the Aniene near Rome; damaged by Totila in 544, restored by Narses in 565, destroyed in 1867 by Papal troops, rebuilt 1874, widened 1930.
Ponte Sant'Angelo
Ponte Sant'Angelo, formerly the Aelian Bridge, is a Roman bridge over the Tiber in Rome built by Emperor Hadrian about 134 AD to reach his mausoleum, the Castel Sant'Angelo.
Ponte Spiano
Ponte Spiano (Ponte Romano Spiano) is a Roman bridge just outside Sigillo, Umbria, carrying the ancient Via Flaminia over the Fonturci stream; 32 m long, 3.25 m wide, built of cornelian stone, dated to the 2nd century BC or Augustan age.
Ponte sul Fosso Tre Ponti
Ponte sul Fosso Tre Ponti (Ponte Romano sul Fosso dei Tre Ponti), Roman tuff bridge on the via Amerina between Nepi and Falerii Novi, Lazio; late 2nd century BC, single arch, best preserved Amerina bridge, reopened 2017.
Ponte Tufaro
Ponte Tufaro, also Ponte Tufaro di Montesarchio, a Roman 2nd-century BC opus quadratum bridge on the Via Appia near Benevento with three round arches, destroyed in World War II; distinct from the Ponte Romano di Tufara in Molise.
Ponte Valentino
Ponte Valentino, bridge over the Calore Irpino on the Via Appia Traiana about 4 km northeast of Benevento, Italy; Roman limestone abutments with medieval brick arches, named for a nearby church of San Valentino.
Ponte Vecchio
Ponte Vecchio, the Old Bridge of Florence over the Arno, rebuilt 1345 with three segmental arches, lined with jewellers' shops since 1593, carrying the Vasari Corridor, and the only Florentine bridge spared in the 1944 German demolitions.
Pontoon bridge
A pontoon bridge is a bridge carried on floating vessels or pontoons rather than piers, used since antiquity and still standard for military wet-gap crossings.