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Bridge of Brar over the River of Tirana is near Brar village. By its typology represents
the bridge with one circular archway. This bridge represents a stone bridge with one
circular archway in two phases of construction. In the first phase, in early eighteenth
century, causeway of the bridge has been slope, then it relented adding walls on both
sides. The bridge has connected the village Brar with Tirana and caravan route
Tirana-Debar, which passed through the village Tujan. Bridge of Brar is a monument
of culture of first category.
Stone Bridges with one archway, are most simple bridges in construction and mainly
arise through streams and small rivers. Being small and not with technical difficulties
in terms of building, one archway bridges encountered not only in important routes of
that period, but also in villages and isolated areas.
The bridge consists of a single semi-circular arch decorated with stones rows. The
technique used in its construction is based on partial and simple processing of stone
and lime mortar.
According to the architectonic-functional of bridge, depending on the line that draws
the level of the causeway, the bridge of Brar is bridge with ridge or lump in the
archway key.
Focusing on building techniques of Brar bridge we should mention a technical detail,
such as its foundations. Bridge foundations are the main element through which
realises the object contact with the ground, having a special importance to its
sustainability. So to cope with large horizontal and vertical loads that gives the arch of
the bridge, the bridge builders aimed to establish on solid rocky shores to avoid any
fracture of supports that would result in additional constraints to archway, which would
give his crack. Depending on the height of the mouth of the river, the bridge of Brar is
classified bridge with one archeway supported on rocky shores where the bottom
was quite above the level of the river bed.
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