#plaka bridge

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Plaka bridge, Athamanian mountains by takis_vsl on Instagram.

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Historic Plaka Bridge in the Epirus Region Restored

“We did nothing. The real miracle was done a century and a half ago by Bekas, working with the tools he had at the time,” says Giorgos Smyris, associate professor of the Department of Architectural Engineering of the University of Ioannina, looking at the restored Plaka Bridge with a smile.

In 1866, when this great stone bridge connecting the two banks of Arachthos was built, Kostas Bekas was the master builder in charge. A few years later, as Greece grew in size, this spot came to mark the border between Greece and the Ottoman Empire, and a customs house to serve that border was built here, too. Smyris undertook the rebuilding of the bridge after its collapse in February 2015.

[allthingseurope]

Plaka Bridge, Greece (by Alexis Bazeos)

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Athamanian Mountains, Greece

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Old bridge of Plaka over Arachthos river, a typical landscape of Epirus, Northwestern Greece