España UNESCO "Vizcaia Zubia Bridge" _ Basque Country 2025 💃🏻

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Bizkaia Bridge, more popularly known as the Hanging Bridge, is the most outstanding representative of the industrial era and one of Euskadi’s most renowned icons. Its main function is to connect the two banks of the Nervion Estuary between Portugalete and Getxo.

A work by Alberto de Palacio with the technical assistance of Ferdinand Arnodín.

Declared a World Heritage site on 13th July 2006, it is the oldest shuttle bridge in world and bears direct witness to Bizkaia’s most recent history. For the UNESCO it is “an exceptional expression of creativity, perfectly blending its functionality and aesthetic beauty”.

PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY:
Go up to the pedestrian walkway in the panoramic lift (50 m high) and you will enjoy some extraordinary views taking in the entire Nervión rivermouth, Bilbao Port, the adjacent mountains, Portugalete and Getxo. * If you don’t want to miss the slightest detail, contract the audioguide service.

WHERE: Bizkaia Bridge . Areeta metro.

GONDOLA:
Cross the bridge on the gondola, which hangs from a 25-metre long, 36-wheel carriage which moves along the rails of the horizontal sleeper. Today’s gondola is the fifth and it dates from 1998.

WHERE: Bizkaia Bridge. Metro Areeta.
TIMES: 365 days /24 hours.

Info from: https://www.getxo.eus/en/turismo/que-...

Buy your tickets and be updated on opening hours: https://puente-colgante.com/

Outstanding Universal Value
Brief synthesis:

The Monumental Vizcaya Hanging Bridge is an infrastructure located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, over the mouth of the River Ibaizabal, at the point where the navigable estuary of Bilbao opens out to the sea. It spans the two banks of the river, thereby connecting the municipalities of Getxo and Portugalete.

It was designed by the Basque architect, Alberto de Palacio, who devised the first bridge in the world with a hanging transporter – which transports passengers and vehicles by means of a gondola suspended high above the passing ships. Its construction is outstanding for merging 19th-century ironworking traditions, taken from the railways, with the new lightweight technology of twisted steel cables, designed by the Frenchman Ferdinand Arnodin. Constructed on private initiative between 1887 and 1893, the bridge has worked almost without interruption since it was built.

The bridge follows the style of the mining aerial tramways and constitutes an outstanding example of architectural minimalism. It is composed of four riveted lattice steel towers, cable-stayed and connected in two pairs, with a total height of 51 metres. Between the two sets of towers, one on either bank, are parabolic cables from which the upper crossbeam hangs, measuring 160 metres in length, suspended 45 metres above sea level at high tide. In order not to interfere with the navigation, a mechanical trolley runs along the crossbeam, from which a platform hangs at the same height as the banks: this is the gondola, capable of transporting around twelve vehicles and some two hundred people. It is known for its aesthetic qualities and constitutes the first bridge in the world to transport passengers using a mechanical, hanging transporter.

The Vizcaya Bridge, one of the most outstanding iron architectural constructions of the European industrial revolution, was hugely innovative due to the fact that it allowed the passage of ships on a wide estuary, with no need for ramps or for raising and lowering of the bridge. This is therefore a system which, at the time it was built, introduced a new solution to meet the requirements at hand and a new method of transport.

Furthermore, as regards the materials used, it represents the ironworking methods practiced in the Basque region, starting with exploitation of the local iron ore deposits in Roman times until reaching the peak of its production in the industrial revolution. Its impact at world level was important, given that it was used as a new model for many other transporter bridges of similar characteristics in Europe, Africa and America, very few of which still stand today.

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00:00 Intro
01:37 Surroundings
06:34 Going Up
10:09 Touring The Bridge
20:04 Yo como un Estúpido (Viva Pringada!)
23:04 Outro