This graceful stone bridge loops 20m high over the glassy green Arahthos River. A bridge has spanned this spot since Roman times; the version you see today is thought to be Ottoman. Folk ballads wail of a woman walled into its foundations, to banish a curse that saw the bridge crumble each time it was built – a common, if macabre, legend for many Balkan bridges. But there's nothing sinister about this photogenic structure. Take the best pictures from the New Bridge opposite, a constrastingly hectic artery into the city.
