Lusitania Bridge

Inaugurated on 10th December 1991, this work by Santiago Calatraba( Architect and engineer) has been constructed by a big platforms of concrete that are suspended by steel tensioner of a great arch. In the centre of the bridge we can find a pedestrian street.

The bridge is made because of the necessity of pedestrianizing the old Roman Bridge that was supporting the weight of the traffic over it. Besides, it consists of the first bridge in the city that was built not only to join the city to the outskirts but to join the different elements of the city: The traditional city and the modern one in the other side of the river.

Inaugurated on 10th December 1991, this work by Santiago Calatraba( Architect and engineer) has been constructed by a big platforms of concrete that are suspended by steel tensioner of a great arch. In the centre of the bridge we can find a pedestrian street.

The bridge is made because of the necessity of pedestrianizing the old Roman Bridge that was supporting the weight of the traffic over it. Besides, it consists of the first bridge in the city that was built not only to join the city to the outskirts but to join the different elements of the city: The traditional city and the modern one in the other side of the river.

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