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Key facts
- Crosses
- Nervión
- Locale
- Portugalete - Getxo ( Biscay ), Spain
- Design
- Transporter bridge
- Material
- Iron
- Total length
- 160 m (520 ft)
- Height
- 45 m (148 ft)
- Architect
- Alberto Palacio
- Engineering design by
- Ferdinand Arnodin
- Official name
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Criteria
- Cultural: (i), (ii)
- Designated
- 2006 (30th session )
- Region
- Europe and North America
- Type
- Non-movable
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Puente Colgante - Transbordador de Bizkaia
El Puente Bizkaia es el primer puente transbordador construido en el mundo de estructura metálica. Está situado en la boca del río Ibaizabal.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- transporter bridge
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Portugalete
- Material used
- iron
- Location
- Portugalete
- Official website
- puente-colgante.com
- Image
- Bizkaia zubia - Puente Bizkaia.jpg
- Height
- 45
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- architect
- Alberto Palacio
- Commons category
- Transporter bridge of Biscay
- Commons gallery
- Puente Transbordador de Vizcaya
- crosses
- Nervión
- main building contractor
- Ferdinand Arnodin
- heritage designation
- bien de interés cultural
- structural engineer
- Ferdinand Arnodin
- longest span
- 160
- date of official opening
- 1893-00-00
- external data available at URL
- www.euskadi.eus/app/ondarea/patrimonio-construido/puente-vizcaya/puente-transbordador/getxo/areeta-las-arenas/fichaconsulta/5663
- native label
- Bizkaiko Zubia
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Encyclopedic overview
The Vizcaya Bridge (Bizkaiko Zubia in Basque, Puente de Vizcaya in Spanish) is a transporter bridge that links the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas (part of Getxo) in the Biscay province of Spain, crossing the mouth of the Nervion River.
People in the area, and even the official website, commonly call it the Puente Colgante (literally "hanging bridge", used for suspension bridge in Spanish), although its structure is quite different from a suspension bridge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vizcaya Bridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.