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Standing 192 m high, it was the tallest cable-stayed bridge in Spain upon the time of its inauguration. [4] It features 152 wire ropes. [2] With a total cost of nearly €74M, it was widely considered a waste of money in the media. [4]
On 13 July 2006, the Vizcaya Bridge was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In Spain, it is the only monument in the Industrial Heritage category. UNESCO considers the bridge to be a perfect combination of beauty and functionality. It was the first to use a combination of iron technology and new steel cables which began a new form of ...
It is the third longest bridge in Portugal and one of the longest in Spain. The bridge is 666 metres long with the central span between the towers being 324 metres. The deck stands 20 metres above the river, allowing the navigation of ships of deep draft. The two towers of the bridge are 95 and 96 metres tall, respectively. [1]
The Assut de l'Or Bridge (Valencian: Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Spanish: Puente de l'Assut de l'Or) [a] is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008.
The Alamillo Bridge consists of a single straight steel-shell tower, infilled with reinforced concrete and inclined backward, counterbalancing a 200 m span with thirteen pairs of cables. Since the weight of the tower is made to be sufficient to counter-balance the deck, back stays are thus not required, effectively substituting the weight of an ...
Name Span Length Type Carries Crosses Opened Location Autonomous communitie Ref. 1: La Pepa Bridge: 540 m (1,770 ft) 3,092 m (10,144 ft) Cable-stayed
The bridge has 88 strap cables. [3] The bridge opened on 15 November 1991. [4] Only featuring 2 lanes of motor vehicles on each side, it soon became a bottleneck. [5] In July 2018, the Ministry of Public Works presented a project to expand the bridge to 6 lanes (3 lanes on each side). On September 1, 2020, the government opened the bidding for ...
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