Romanesque Bridge of Montetiffi

Built around the 11th century in sandstone blocks and two meters wide, it connects the Uso Valley with the Marecchia Valley with its round arch and has therefore represented a very important crossroads since ancient times. Originally it also possessed the stone parapets, now missing, about 1 meter high. For centuries the tegliai of the village of Montetiffi crossed the river Uso at this point. They traveled around Romagna with their mules to sell the typical terracotta pans on which the piadina was cooked. But, to move between Montetiffi and Montefeltro in the nineteenth century, there were also brigands, gunpowder smugglers and, in the following century, smugglers of tobacco and liquor from San Marino. The Romanesque bridge, therefore, in addition to having a historical and artistic value, is today a symbol of the human events that took place in the Upper Valle dell’Uso, when the provincial road still did not reach these areas and people lived on more or less legitimate crafts and trade.
(Source: fondoambiente.it)