Pont de l'Artuby, also called Pont sur l'Artuby or Pont de Chaulière, is a two-lane road bridge that connects Route D 71 to the Artuby Gorge in the Var department in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. The nearest towns are Aiguines and Trigance, which are away respectively.
Description Pont de l'Artuby consists of a large reinforced concrete arch with a span of , on which the carriageway slab is lined with slender, unadorned stanchions. The arrow height of the bow is . The arch is framed by comparatively slim piers; short slab-beam bridges on the sides of the slopes, which are supported by equally unadorned supports, provide the connection to the streets.J. L.: Sur la Corniche Sublime. Artikel vom 25. Juli 1939 in Le Matin ()
The bridge is used for bungee jumping. The height of the bridge over the valley floor is usually . Due to the height information in a topographical map, it is probably only .Carte topographique IGN des Institut géographique national im französischen Geoportal: 735 m – 598 m = 137 m
History At the end of the 1930s, the Corniche Sublime (today's D 71) was built to open up the remote area around the Gorges du Verdon for tourism.Raoul Bérenguier: Du nouveau aux gorges du Verdon. In: La Revue du Touring-club de France, 1939, S. 237 () The necessary bridge over the Artuby was largely completed in 1938 to 1940. However, work had to be stopped because of World War II, so that the route could only be opened in 1946.
The bridge was designed by the Pelnard-Considère et Caquot office and designed by Thorrand et Cie. built from Nice . The falsework was formed from two trussed segments each weighing 60 tons, which were first mounted on the Imposts in a vertical position and lowered on 17 April 1939 with ropes into the arched position above the gorge.Au moyen de câbles, deux cintres de 60 tonnes chacun sont descendus dans une gorge du Var. Artikel vom 17. April 1939 in Le Petit journal ()Fotoserie über das Einsetzen der beiden Hälften des Lehrgerüsts
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