Trajan's bridge at Drobeta-Turnu Severin built by the architect Apollodorus
Trajan's bridge at Drobeta-Turnu Severin built by the architect Apollodorus

Summary/Abstract: In 1998, the Ministry of Culture commissioned the Design Centre for the National Cultural Heritage (CPPCN) with the project entitled “Restoration and enhancement of the ruins of Trajan’s Bridge in Drobeta Turnu-Severin”. Within the project, 12 potential variants were drawn up, of which the optimal one for that moment was chosen. The project was abandoned in 2003, due to the dissolution of the Design Centre for the National Cultural Heritage. With all those actions, taken with good intentions, the Ruin of Trajan’s Bridge didn’t gain much: a published volume containing the complex and multi-disciplinary research, official visits, a perimetric drain channel and a pump to evacuate meteoric water from the basin in which the ruin is embedded. The railway (which is a single track rail and an important international railway) noisily crosses the ancient enclosure even today, although there have been opportune moments to move it. From time to time it is damaged and becomes impracticable because of the landslides downstream from Turnu-Severin, but, with all those impediments it remains immovable. The people that were morally involved in the project included the archaeologist Prof. Dr. Petre Alexandrescu and the architect Aurel Teodorescu.

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