St. Gregory’s Bridge

St. Gregory’s Bridge is a broad, crowded stone bridge that links Temple Isle with Gildorf and the rest of Novigrad. Its arches span the water between the city and the Church’s island, and its deck is always busy with pilgrims, Temple Guards, merchants and idlers, with the towering Great Temple of the Eternal Fire looming over the far end. It is one of the most recognisable views in the city and one of the best places to watch the whole of Novigrad go by.

According to the map, the bridge is named after a local hero who saved the city from a terrible famine three hundred years ago by spending half his fortune on food shipped in from Nazair. Grateful Novigradians declared him a saint, and not even the Church of the Eternal Fire’s jurors could talk them out of it.

In The Witcher 3

For Geralt the bridge is first and foremost a fast travel signpost, and a very handy one. The Passiflora lies just east of it, Dijkstra’s Bathhouse just to the south, and Electors’ Square is a short walk across the water. A notice board near the bridge carries the invitation to the Passiflora’s Gwent tournament in High Stakes.

Several quests pass over it. In Novigrad, Closed City, the witch hunters’ crackdown on mages spills onto the streets around the bridge, and Reason of State, the quest that decides King Radovid’s fate, also passes by here. In A Deadly Plot the signpost is the quickest way to reach the Border Post outside the city.

Quests around St. Gregory’s Bridge

• High Stakes
• Novigrad, Closed City
• Reason of State
• Payback
• A Deadly Plot