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Puente de Hierro (puente de Alfonso XIII)

La Victoria de Acentejo, Tenerife - Acentejo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Puente de Hierro (puente de Alfonso XIII)

Monument · La Victoria de Acentejo, Tenerife - Acentejo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

La Victoria de Acentejo

Image of La Victoria de Acentejo, not of the place itself.

A viaduct over the Barranco Hondo that linked La Victoria and Santa Úrsula, ending the isolation of the island's north. The design was commissioned from engineer José Eugenio Ribera by royal order of 16 September 1907, and the bridge, built of reinforced concrete and iron, opened on 20 March 1909 under the name Alfonso XIII; it was the first reinforced-concrete structure in the Canary Islands.

real orden del 16 de septiembre de 1907; inaugurado el 20 de marzo de 1909

Photo: Elimedina (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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