Napoleon's Bridge near Kobarid is a stone bridge over the gorge of the Soča River east of Kobarid. It was formed at the place where the Soča River is squeezed into a narrow gorge for the last time before crossing the plain of the Kobarid Basin. The bridge got its name because French troops marched over it during Napoleon's conquest. The first known bridge at this site was the wooden Venetian Bridge, which was demolished in 1616. In 1750, a new, stone Napoleon Bridge was built. This was mined by retreating Austrian troops in the First World War, and after the war the Italians built the existing bridge. During the Second World War, the bridge played an important role in the battle for the defense of the Kobarid Republic.
During the Italian occupation of Primorska (1918-1943) and later in Yugoslavia, the narrow Soča gorge above the bridge represented the idea of flooding the gorge and building a hydroelectric power plant on the Soča near Kobarid. The Italians had already begun construction of preparatory work (construction of a new Kobarid-Bovec road on the current, elevated site), but the war overtook their plans. After World War II, Yugoslavia tried to carry out its plans, but after a population uprising and the catastrophe in Longarone (Italy) in 1963, activities stopped and the upper Soča River to the Soča Bridge was declared a non-dammed environment.
Currently, the bridge has the role of connecting Drežnica and Smasti with the surrounding area with Kobarid and represents a bottleneck on the local road, especially during the tourist season, when there are many pedestrians. Occasionally there are also jumps to the Soča, although these are more common in Kanal and Most na Soči.