Location information

  On the Portaikos river, in the height of Pyli, there are, near one another, four bridges of different eras (1514 until 1981) and of different technique (stone arcaded, two from concrete, pendent).
1) The arcaded bridge
  It is found roughly 1 km westwards of Pyli and has been built in 1514 by Agios Vissarionas. This bridge was unique until 1936 that connected the plain with the region of Aspropotamos. It is one-arched 67 m. long, 2, 05 m. wide, 30, 50 greatest height and height of parapets 0,70 m.
2) Kondyli bridge
  The needs of the days led to the manufacture of a new bridge for the car connection of Trikala with the mountainous villages. That is why, 1 km westwards the old arched bridge a new one was manufactured, modern for those days, from concrete. The manufacture began in November 1934 and finished in June 1936. This bridge, which looks like a shuttle, is 45, 30 m. long, 6 m. wide and 22 m. high. On June 9 of 1943 the rebels, in order to impede the mechanically-driven occupied troops, they blew the left winger pedestal. The bridge fell without breaking. Later, it was lifted off and it was restored in its initial place, where it remains until today and serves the communication with the villages of Pindos, but also with Arta.
3) Gikas bridge
  It was manufactured in 1960-61 from armed concrete and serves up to today a lot of villages in root of Kozjakas. It is 170 m. long
4) Pendent Footbridge
  It was manufactured in 1981 to service the residents of the settlement of Panagia, but also the visitors of the homonymous Byzantine church. It is 120 m. long and is supported by two 16 m. high pylons. The suspension of the deck is being done with straight protuberant cables and it is the first bridge in Greece that was manufactured with this technique. It is 2 m. wide and the height from the watercourse of the river is 7 m.

This text is cited Oct 2003 from the Municipality of Pyli URL below, which contains images.

• http://www.dimospylis.gr/gefyres.htm (2 img.)