The Three-arched Bridge

Description:

When the construction of a bridge built to link the Balkans to Europe is repeatedly and mysteriously sabotaged, an old ballad starts making the rounds at local taverns. The bards sing of a legend – a woman immured in a castle wall to prevent it from falling. Some say the bridge is being damaged by local ferrymen, others blame the vengeful water spirits. But this is a town where terror and superstition reign and a solution must be reached. So it is decreed: a willing person must be plastered into the bridge…

subjects: Fiction,  Bridges,  History,  Design and construction,  Fiction, general,  Albania, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general

Places: Albania

Times: To 1501