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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can contemplate the marvelous and well-preserved Pont de Vilomara (Bages), with the passage of the Llobregat river with a chocolate color due to the rains of recent days.
With the last precipitations the river goes down stirred with earth sediments. Sediment is a solid material accumulated on the earth’s surface derived from the actions of phenomena and processes that act in the atmosphere, in this case, rain.
The first bridge in Vilomara over the Llobregat river has existed since ancient times and was made of wood, as evidenced by some holes under the arch of the current one.
In Roman times, where the wooden bridge was, the stone bridge was built, the “Villa Amara bridge”, following the royal path that went from Bages to Barcino, passing through the Sant Llorenç mountain and through the region of Valles. “Amara” is Latin for submerged.
In the 5th century, during the invasion of the Roman Empire, the royal road was probably one of the penetration paths of the invaders.
