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The Ponts Couverts are three stone bridges and four square towers on the Ill at the edge of Strasbourg's Petite France quarter. Built from 1230 as part of the city's defences, the bridges lost their roofs in 1784 and were rebuilt in stone in 1865; the towers later served as prisons. Today the bridges are a pedestrian route.

The Barrage Vauban is a covered bridge and weir across the Ill in Strasbourg, built in pink Vosges sandstone from 1686 to 1690 to plans by Vauban so the river could be raised to flood the land south of the city. Its 120 m gallery displays casts of sculptures from the cathedral, and its roof terrace looks over the Ponts Couverts and Petite France.