Pont Lesdiguières

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The Lesdiguières Bridge, also known as the Claix Bridge, is a masonry bridge crossing the Drac, located entirely before 1873 in the town of Claix. Since 2 July 1873, the date of creation of the commune of Pont-de-Claix on the right bank of the Drac, it connects Claix to Pont-de-Claix. The name of the bridge comes from the initiator of the construction François de Bonne de Lesdiguières, Lieutenant-General of the Dauphiné, who died in 1626.

Cited among the seven wonders of the Dauphiné, it is a very bold construction for its time with a single arch of a little less than forty six meters of opening, rising about sixteen meters above the Drac. The work was classified as a historical monument by order of 27 May 1898.