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BRIDGES OF SPAIN 2013.-Puente del Pilar. Saragossa

Date of Issue : 25 September 2013

The series bridges Spain continues to issue two blocks leaves dedicated to Puente Romano in Mérida (Badajoz), and Puente del Pilar in Zaragoza.

The Puente del Pilar , also known as Iron Bridge crosses over the river Ebro in the city of Zaragoza. It was built in the late nineteenth century by the Spanish engineering company The Machinist Terrestrialand Maritime, specializing in the manufacture of metal bridges in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was one of the first bridges were fixed in Zaragoza, as to construction existed only fixed structure the Stone Bridge, the fifteenth century. In 1991 he undertook a remodeling directed by the engineer Roads Javier Manterola, which side panels added two arc-shaped for the passage of vehicles, reserving the central platform for pedestrians. He noticed, too, the metal structure is painted in the colors chosen by popular vote, blue and white.

In the plasma sheet block, first, the bridge on the background of the city and the Basilica Our Señora del Pilar. 

BRIDGES OF SPAIN 2013.- Puente Romano de Mérida. Badajoz

Date of Issue : 25 September 2013

The series bridges Spain continues to issue two blocks leaves dedicated toPuente Romano in Mérida (Badajoz), and Puente del Pilar in Zaragoza.

The Puente Romano Merida city stands on the Guadiana River as part of the archaeological site of the ancient Augusta Emerita, as it was called in ancient times the city. It was built in the first century to facilitate communications with Baeticaand access to the city, after the settlement of the Roman legions in the town. It has a length of792 meters, With 60 arches, and is considered the longest bridge of antiquity. It is built with a concrete core, made from materials of the river, covered with granite padded armchairs. Originally divided into three distinct sections. The place chosen to raise the bridge was made taking into account the lower flow in that part of the river and that the channel was divided into two arms with a middle island, which served to support the bridge. Over two thousand years of history and of flooding and flooding of the river, there have been several restorations, but the bridge still has its original construction in the section closest to the city, called the Shrine.   

In the souvenir sheet reproduces an overview of the Puente Romano with its many arches.

Source : Espana Post