Pont Vell
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Arch bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge
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| Completed in: | 94 B.C. |
| Status: | in ruins (1907) |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, Europe |
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| Crosses |
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| Next to |
Pont Vell (1911)
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| number of spans | 5 |
Materials
| piers |
stone
|
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| arches |
stone
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Chronology
| 1866 | A big flood destroys the right part of the bridge, three arches disappear. |
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| 18 July 1875 | The destroyed part is replaced by a two-span truss bridge, 21.49 m in length, 4.5 m wide + 1.1 m on each side for pedestrians. Cost of reconstruction was 79.989 pesetas. |
| 21 October 1907 | Another flood, lasting 4 days, destroys the truss bridge. A completely new bridge was constructed later, leaving the ruins of this one as they were. |
Participants
- Juli de Saracibar (designer) (truss)
Relevant Web Sites
There currently are no relevant websites listed.
Relevant Publications
- El Pont de Lleida: una història en imatges, Dilagro, Lleida (Spain), ISBN 8472341194, 1993
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0003134 |
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| Created: | 21/02/2002 |
| Last Updated: | 27/02/2013 |