Drobeta-Turnu Severin

Drobeta-Turnu Severin is a city in Mehedinți County, Oltenia, Romania, at the left bank of the Danube, beneath the Iron Gates. The town administers three villages: Dudasu Schelei, Gura Vaii, and Schela Cladovei. The city's population is ninety two,617, up from 18,628 in 1900. The town changed into referred to as Drobeta through the Romans. The tower which provided the Turnu part of the metropolis's call stood on a small hill surrounded by means of a deep moat. Near Turnu Severin are the stays of the distinguished Trajan's Bridge, the most important in the Empire. Here, the Danube is about 1,2 hundred metres broad.

Built in most effective three years via the famous architect Apollodorus of Damascus, the bridge became taken into consideration the most daring work in the Roman international. The bridge was built on 20 pillars of stone blocks, was 1135 m long, 14.55 m huge and 18.60 m excessive. Each bridge head had its own portal monument, whose remains can nonetheless be seen on each facets of the Danube. Oaks from 2 hundred hectares of forest had been used for the timber components of the construction. The bridge turned into composed of twenty arches supported through stone pillars. Only two of them are still seen at low water.