Pont du Saint-Esprit

Medieval bridge over the Rhone 25 arches: the bridge is 919 meters long built from 1265 to 1309.
The Bridge of the Holy Spirit has most of its structure in the town of Lamotte-du-Rhone.
Its construction was intended by the brother of St. Louis, Count of Poitiers and Toulouse Alphonse de Poitiers, she began in 1265 and ended in 1309.
According to Viollet-le-Duc, it was entrusted to the priest of the Hospitallers branch (the branch of the bridge builders, formed by the soldier monks to facilitate pilgrimages) and directed by John Tensanges or Thianges.
Traditionally it, prior of the Benedictines of Saint-Saturnin da-du-Port will be first denied and then he gave this construction, inspired by the Holy Spirit and asked himself the first stone.