REOPENING OF PONT DU GARRIT 2024

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Mark your calendars... June 8, 2024!!! Special notice to walkers and walking clubs. Come and take advantage of the reopening of the bridge to hike the Pont du Garrit loop: 10 km right bank and left bank of the Dordogne, 90% flat, with 21 educational panels on the fauna and flora of the river to discover . Departure at 9 a.m., coffee offered by the town of Saint Cyprien and a good natural atmosphere guaranteed.
We will talk about the day's program again in the days and weeks to come.

Dordogne: and this Garrit bridge which remains in the middle of the ford…

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The Garrit metal bridge was built between 1892 and 1894 to replace the ferry which allowed crossing the Dordogne between Berbiguières and Saint-Cyprien. © Photo credit: Friends of the Garrit Bridge Association

By Titia Carrizey-Jasick

Published on 02/16/2022 at 12:44 p.m.

Updated 02/18/2022 at 7:01 p.m.

HERITAGE - Legacy of the industrial revolution, the Garrit metal bridge has spanned the Dordogne since 1894. Closed to automobile traffic in 1991, the bridge should, thanks to the involvement of an association which includes Francis Cabrel, Claude Villers and Georges Pernoud , will soon be reopened to pedestrians.

""Just cross the bridge»… In Périgord Noir, it was not always so easy to cross the Dordogne. Until the last decades of the 19th century, it was necessary to call on the ferryman and take the ferry to go from Berbiguières (left bank) to Saint-Cyprien (just opposite) in a straight line. Natives not inclined to river hazards could also, from 1850, use the Siorac bridge about 7 kilometers downstream.

For safety reasons, the Garrit bridge was closed to pedestrian traffic in 2019. It was no longer accessible to cars since 1991.

Titia Carrizey-Jasick

Built between 1892 and 1894 to replace the ancestral ferry and transport men, animals, tobacco then tractors and cars, the Garrit bridge today opens to gentle roaming after being saved from a predictable obsolescence.

A century of good and loyal service

Pont du Garrit in 1894, shortly after...