Stone arches were used in its design, reflecting the advanced engineering of the time.
\nThe bridge\u2019s most notable feature is that it was built using white stones mixed with white soil.
\nIt was renovated during the French occupation, and it has not suffered any damage or cracks despite its prime location and heavy rainfall\u2014a testament to the quality of its construction.
\nIt was formerly used for the passage of military units, but today it serves as a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stone arches were used in its design, reflecting the advanced engineering of the time. The bridge\u2019s most notable feature is that it was built using white stones mixed with white soil. It was renovated during the French occupation, and it has not suffered any damage or cracks despite its prime location and heavy rainfall\u2014a testament to the quality of its construction. It was formerly used for the passage of military units, but today it serves as a tourist attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,294],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-landmarks-tartus","category-tartus","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}