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Bridge of a Illa de Arousa

A Illa de Arousa, Salnés, Pontevedra

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Bridge of a Illa de Arousa

Monument · A Illa de Arousa, Salnés, Pontevedra

A box-girder bridge linking the Illa de Arousa with the Salnés coast, level with Vilanova; it was inaugurated on 14 September 1985, at the time one of the most notable civil engineering works of its era and, at almost two kilometres, the longest bridge in Galicia. Its construction, demanded for decades by local residents - who held the Festa Pro Ponte in 1979 to call for it -, was budgeted at 1,500 million pesetas. The structure has a continuous girder of 38 fifty-metre spans plus two more of forty metres at the ends, laid out on a curve with a radius of 2.5 kilometres, on piles reaching down to 40 metres. At its inauguration the island belonged to the municipality of Vilanova de Arousa; in 1996 it regained its status as a separate municipality, and today each one is responsible for half the bridge.

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