45 master builders & 60 apprentices Tank Top

Among the dozens of old stone bridges of Greece, (one of my very favourite subjects), this one, the legendary bridge of Arta , crossing river Arachthos, is the most famous. Connected with legends, fairy tales and folk ballads, it seems that for a long time, the contruction of this bridge was the "Epic of failure". Some lyrics from a folk ballad, just to get the idea: "Masters forty five and apprentices sixty a bridge they were building at the river of Arta once All day they built it, and in the evening it collapsed." . The solution was to sacrifice the headmaster's wife, who, according to the legend and the song, was "built in" or "walled up" (immurement) in the bridge!!! This is a quite common legend in all the countries o...