Urgent question

[ritaxis]

What on earth is this bridge thing for?  It doesn't have a sign on it, and it's clearly not for traveling between the houses.  Is it reinforcement, to keep the buildings from collapsing into the street?

Comments

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

I think you're right, a butress but not a flying one :) Unless there used to be a gate but it doesn't look like it at all.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

If it's anywhere near the Mediterranean I'd say building support, courtesy of frequent earthquakes.

I've seen that sort of thing elsewhere in pictures of old European neighborhoods, though never thought to wonder about it, so who knows?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

It's in Vilna/Wilnow/Vilnius, well before the War.