This web page includes photographs, paintings, letters, essays, historical notes, and other miscellanea for the world's rare Devil's Bridges. Since the prehistoric era Gotthard Pass has separated northern Europe from the Mediterranean, both politically and economically. For these strategic reasons, as well as for its vast natural grandeur, the bridge at Gotthard Pass has attained a mythic stature and attracted a continuous stream of artists, writers, and other awe-struck visitors over the centuries folktales, Legends, Myths, travel, foreign travel, touring, voyage, pilgrimage, history, Europe, trains, airplanes, ships, canals, barges, locks, walks, countryside, trekking, trek, hike, hiking, touring, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Devil,The Devil, Old Nick, The Evil One, diavolo, diablo, His sable majesty, Wales, Aberystwyth, Cumbria, Lake district, England, Lake Country, Scotland, collies, George Borrow, Europe, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, William Tell, Venice, Torcello, Die Teufelsbrücke, St. Gotthard, St. James way, pilgrimage, hotels, inns, b&bs, ferries, Sicily, mummies, saints, churches, books, reading, Aurelio Zen, Guido Brunetti, Syracusa, ruins, hiking, backpacks, backpacking, villa, villa, engineers, building, architect, roman era, roman, rome,