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First thrown across the Guadalquivir in Roman times, the bridge of Cordoba has carried traffic over the river for some two thousand years. For most of that history it was the only bridge in the city, and it remains one of the great sights of the old centre. It was originally built in the 1st century BC, in the age of the Emperor Augustus, and is thought to have carried the Via Augusta, the Roman road that ran from the heart of the empire all the way to Cadiz on the Atlantic coast. Although it ...