| Old Bridge of Vilaller | |
| Coordinates: | 42.4772°N 0.7149°W |
| Crosses: | Noguera Ribagorçana |
| Design: | Arch bridge |
| Locale: | Vilaller, Alta Ribagorça, Catalonia |
| Inaugurated: | 17th century |
| Collapsed: | August 2nd 1963 |
The Old Bridge of Vilaller is an ancient bridge on the river Noguera Ribagorçana, currently in ruins. It is protected as a Bé Cultural d'Interès Local .[1]
The bridge is a 17th-century construction that crosses the river Noguera Ribagorçana, linking the main center of Vilaller with the neighbourhood of Aragon located on the right bank of the river.[2]
The original bridge had three arches, but was damaged during the flood of 1963 and lost two of them.
For many years the river was crossed by means of a lever located roughly where the bridge is situated. During the 16th century the village of Vilaller experienced a strong economic growth so that on August 15, 1686, the General Council of Vilaller petitioned to His Majesty Charles II of Spain the permission for building a stone three arched bridge where the lever had been until then. They engaged to build it and keep it.[3] The bridge endured until the flood of August 2, 1963, when the river destroyed two of the three arches.[4]
For some time, makeshift wooden planks over the ruins of the bridge allowed crossing the river, until June 1964 when a new bridge was built upstream.[5]