Pont Romà

For centuries this was the only reliable crossing of the Torrent de Sant Jordi when the stream ran high, the link between Pollença and the orchards of L'Horta de Cubelles in the valley behind it. A flood recorded in 1403 is the earliest firm date historians can attach to the bridge, and it has since ridden out further serious torrents in 1780, 1873 and 1990 without losing an arch. The Mallorcan historians Pere Salas and Antoni Borràs Seguí later went looking for archaeological evidence of a Roman date and found none; the crossing more likely belongs to the centuries after Pollença itself was resettled following the 13th-century conquest, once the valley's farmland needed a proper bridge. One older theory holds that a Roman-era structure on the same spot once helped regulate water on the route toward Pollentia, the Roman town near modern Alcúdia, though nothing has ever been excavated to back it up. The bridge is protected today as a Historical-Artistic Monument, official recognition of its age even without the Roman pedigree its nickname promises.