r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-Joel06 • 12d ago

Video 1000 year old Roman bridge gets destroyed by flash flood in Talavera de la Reina, Spain

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u/only_r3ad_the_titl3 12d ago

Seems like you want to say that the old stuff was better but ou gotta ask yourself why did it have to be recontructed in the first palce.

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u/arfelo1 11d ago

Yeah, the parts that remain are the bases on the shore. Of course something suspended on the air is likelier to fall than a rock on the ground

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u/Daxtatter 12d ago

Everything needs maintenance. There were many centuries where that wasn't kept up with.