Ponte Romano di Palino - Sant’Agata di Puglia

The three-span bridge is of Roman origin and once served to cross the Calaggio torrent, tributary of the Carapelle, whose course is now diverted to about 200 meters away. Curiously today the bridge is located parallel to the course of the Carapelle that flows a few meters away. Of the primitive structure of the bridge, unused for some time and in a partial state of ruins, remain the stone blocks at the base. Tradition has it that the bridge was located along the so-called "Via Oraziana", that is the road that crossed Horace in 37 B.C. on his journey from Rome to Brindisi and that the poet narrates in Satira V, book I, known also as "Iter Brundisinum".