Stone Bridge, Winterset, Iowa
The gracefully arched Stone Bridge in Winterset City Park park where Francesca and Robert go for their "getaway" picnic, just south of the Cutler-Donahue Covered Bridge.
The Bridges of Madison County is a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a lonely Italian war bride who engages in an adulterous affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who has come to Madison County, Iowa in order to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. The novel is presented as a novelisation of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fiction, though some have speculated that, due to admitted similaries between the author and the main character, some elements of the novel may be slightly autobiographical.
The Bridges of Madison County was made into a 1995 film of the same name adapted by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood and Meryl Streep. (Wikipedia)
Winterset City Park Historic District - NRHP 100006220
South 9th St. at East South St.
Stone Bridge, Winterset, Iowa
The gracefully arched Stone Bridge in Winterset City Park park where Francesca and Robert go for their "getaway" picnic, just south of the Cutler-Donahue Covered Bridge.
The Bridges of Madison County is a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller which tells the story of a lonely Italian war bride who engages in an adulterous affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington who has come to Madison County, Iowa in order to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. The novel is presented as a novelisation of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fiction, though some have speculated that, due to admitted similaries between the author and the main character, some elements of the novel may be slightly autobiographical.
The Bridges of Madison County was made into a 1995 film of the same name adapted by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood and Meryl Streep. (Wikipedia)
Winterset City Park Historic District - NRHP 100006220
South 9th St. at East South St.