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Barca Bridge
The Barca Bridge is a bridge over the Lérez River, at its mouth in the Pontevedra Ria, which connects the city of Pontevedra (in the area of A Moureira) with the municipality of Poio in Spain. History According to documents from 1197, the boat passage, which gave its name to the place and the bridge, was controlled by the Benedictine monks of the monastery of St John of Poio. In the 19th century, the Society of Seamen of Pontevedra exploited the passage, which led to clashes with the monastery of Poio, the Marquis of Riestra and the Spanish Navy. To avoid these confrontations, given the need to build a bridge, the "Barca bridge building society" was created, formed by the Seafarers' Society, the inhabitants of Poio and capitalist partners. First bridge The first low wooden bridge at La Barca was built in 1867 and began operating in 1871. The structure included a lifting section, which was lifted with a winch to allow the passage of large ships to the Galera and Burgo qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motor Vehicles
A motor vehicle, also known as motorized vehicle or automotive vehicle, is a self-propelled land vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on Track (rail transport), rails (such as trains or trams) and is used for the transportation of people or cargo. The vehicle propulsion is provided by an engine or motor, usually an internal combustion engine or an electric motor, or some combination of the two, such as hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. For legal purpose, motor vehicles are often identified within a number of vehicle classes including cars, buses, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, light trucks and regular trucks. These classifications vary according to the legal codes of each country. International Organization for Standardization, ISO 3833:1977 is the standard for road vehicle types, terms and definitions. Generally, to avoid requiring people with disabilities from having to possess an operator's license to use one, or requiring tags and insurance, powered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. Designed by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was long, with an interior height of , and was three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral. The introduction of the sheet glass method into Britain by Chance Brothers in 1832 made possible the production of large sheets of cheap but strong glass, and its use in the Crystal Palace created a structure with the greatest area of glass ever seen in a building. It astonished visitors with its clear walls and ceilings that did not require interior lights. It has been suggested that the name of the building resulted from a piece penned by the playwright Doug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bridges In Spain
This list of bridges in Spain lists bridges of particular historical, scenic, architectural or engineering interest. Road and railway bridges, viaducts, aqueducts and footbridges are included. Bridges of historical importance {{row indexer, {, class="wikitable sortable" , - ! class="unsortable", ! scope=col , ! scope=col , Name ! scope=col width="210" , Distinction ! scope=col , Length ! scope=col , Type ! scope=col , Carries''Crosses'' ! scope=col , Opened ! scope=col , Location ! scope=col , Autonomous communitie ! class="unsortable", Ref. , - , , , _row_count, , Roman bridge of Córdoba, , bgcolor="#FFFFFF", Via AugustaBien de Interés Cultural, , {{convert, 247, m, ft, abbr=on, , {{Sort, M, Masonry16 arches, , {{center, Footbridge''Guadalquivir'', , 100 BC, , Córdoba, Spain, Córdoba{{Coord, 37, 52, 36.1, N, 4, 46, 40.7, W, type:landmark, display=inline, name=Roman bridge of Córdoba, , Andalusia, , {{cite web , url=https://structurae.net/en/structures/roman-bridge-in-co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Bridge
The Santiago Bridge (''St. James Bridge'') crosses the Lérez River in the city of Pontevedra (Spain), where the N-550 road runs alongside it. It connects the city centre with the A Xunqueira area and the O Burgo district. History The project for this bridge, designed to relieve congestion on the Burgo Bridge over which the N-550 used to run, was presented in 1980. Construction began in June 1981 and was carried out by the Spanish Government's Ministry of Public Works at a cost of 173 million pesetas. Inaugurated on 11 September 1983 by the former Minister of Public Works Jesús Sancho Rof, it was not fully operational until the redevelopment of Buenos Aires Avenue and the inauguration of Compostela Avenue on 3 July 1987, which, with four lanes, gave continuity to the Santiago Bridge and offered a new exit to the city from the north towards Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña. Description It is a reinforced concrete girder bridge with two decks supported on four pillars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Currents Bridge
The Currents Bridge (''puente de las Corrientes'' in Spanish), is a tied-arch bridge that crosses the Lérez River in the city of Pontevedra, Spain. It was inaugurated in 2012 and connects Uruguay Avenue and Domingo Fontán Street. History The location of the bridge is known as ''The Currents'' ''(Las Corrientes)'', because this is where the waters of the Rons river meet those of the Lérez river and the ria of Pontevedra. Since 1989, the construction of a new bridge in this place of ''The Currents'' was planned to connect the two banks of the Lérez river. However, it was not until the beginning of the 21st century that this idea was taken up again to provide another exit from the city centre to the north and the beaches of the ria de Pontevedra and direct access to the Autopista AP-9, AP-9 motorway, In 2008, the city council organised an ideas competition to decide on the design of the new bridge. In the end, one of the proposals for an tied-arch bridge was chosen because it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirantes Bridge
The Tirantes Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that crosses the River Lérez in the city of Pontevedra, Spain, linking the south bank to the north bank at the level of the city's Congress Hall. Designed by Leonardo Fernandez Troyano and Francisco Javier Manterola Armisen in 1992, it was inaugurated in 1995. It is one of the 33 most outstanding bridges in Spain. History The construction of the bridge was planned by the Xunta de Galicia to connect the two banks of the River Lérez at the beginning of the 1990s as part of a large urban planning project for the development of the north-eastern area of the city, on the drained land of a former Marshland. The project included the construction of the Pontevedra Congress Hall and a cable-stayed bridge to serve it as a northbound exit from the city. The jury of the preliminary design competition for the bridge, chaired by the Regional Minister of Public Works, José Cuíña, announced its decision on 15 December 1991. Construction of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgo Bridge
The Burgo Bridge ''(Puente del Burgo)'' is a medieval bridge, built over an older bridge of Roman origin, which crosses the Lérez River in the city of Pontevedra, Spain. It is on the route of the Portuguese Way to the north of the historic centre of Pontevedra and to the south of the Burgo neighbourhood. Between the arches above the pillars are carved the famous stone pilgrim's shells. History The present medieval bridge is the heir to the first Roman bridge over which the Roman road XIX passed according to Antonine Itinerary. This bridge still existed in the 12th century but was in ruins. It remained for a very long time the only crossing point of the Lérez River on the Portuguese Way. The first references to the current bridge date back to 1165, when King Ferdinand the Catholic of León and King Afonso I of Portugal signed the Peace of Lérez in the ''super flumen Lerice in vetula ponte'', designating the old Roman bridge as the Old Bridge. In the 15th century, the br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paseo Marítimo De Pontevedra
The paseo marítimo of Pontevedra is a pedestrian way along the seafront facing the ria of Pontevedra, in Pontevedra, Spain. This coastal public space is built in the urban and semi-urban area of the city and defines its encounter with the sea and the Lérez river. History At the beginning of the 20th century it was a rough and stony path along the Ria de Pontevedra and the Lérez river. The current pedestrian walkway has several sections that were built at different times by different public administrations. Until 1997, the banks of the Lérez river were not developed. In 1996, the Galician Government awarded the construction work on the banks from the Tirantes Bridge to the Lérez Beach area to the construction company OCP, including a new access to the Monte Porreiro district. Work began on 7 October 1996.The project covered a total of 42,000 square metres on the left bank of the river. On the right bank, the project consisted of the development of a 110,000 square metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awning
An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas woven of acrylic, cotton or polyester yarn, or vinyl laminated to polyester fabric that is stretched tightly over a light structure of aluminium, iron or steel, possibly wood or transparent material (used to cover solar thermal panels in the summer, but that must allow as much light as possible in the winter). The configuration of this structure is something of a truss, space frame or planar frame. Awnings are also often constructed of aluminium understructure with aluminium sheeting. These aluminium awnings are often used when a fabric awning is not a practical application where snow load as well as wind loads may be a factor. The location of an awning on a building may be above a window, a door, or above the area along a sidewalk. With the addition of columns an awning becomes a canopy, which is able to extend further from a building, as in the case of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autopista AP-9
The AP-9 or ''Autoestrada do Atlántico'' is a toll motorway in Galicia, Spain. It starts in A Coruña and runs south past the cities of Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra and Vigo, before ending at the town of Tui, a few kilometres north of the Portuguese border at the Minho River. The AP-9 is 178 km (111 miles) in length. The first 16 km (10 miles), from A Coruña to the A-6 ''autovía'' near the towns of Guísamo and Betanzos, form part of European route E70, while the remainder forms part of European route E01. Between A Coruña and Vigo, the motorway runs parallel to the N-550 road, and between Vigo and Tui it runs parallel to the A-55 ''autovía'' . The AP-9 has two spurs: the 36 km (22.5 mile) long AP-9F from Guísamo to Ferrol, which runs parallel to the N-651 road and also forms part of European route E01; and the 4 km (2.5 mile) long AP-9V, which runs into the centre of Vigo. History Construction of the motorway, originally known as the A-9, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abutment
An abutment is the substructure at the ends of a bridge span or dam supporting its superstructure. Single-span bridges have abutments at each end which provide vertical and lateral support for the span, as well as acting as retaining walls to resist lateral movement of the earthen fill of the bridge approach. Multi-span bridges require piers to support ends of spans unsupported by abutments. Dam abutments are generally the sides of a valley or gorge, but may be artificial in order to support arch dams such as Kurobe Dam in Japan. The civil engineering term may also refer to the structure supporting one side of an arch, or masonry used to resist the lateral forces of a vault.Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 245 The impost or abacus of a column in classical architecture may also serve as an abutment to an arch. The word derives from the verb "abut", meaning to "touch by means of a mutual border". Use in engineering An abutment may be us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units, which are often laid in and bound together by mortar; the term ''masonry'' can also refer to the units themselves. The common materials of masonry construction are bricks, building stone such as marble, granite, and limestone, cast stone, concrete blocks, glass blocks, and adobe. Masonry is generally a highly durable form of construction. However, the materials used, the quality of the mortar and workmanship, and the pattern in which the units are assembled can substantially affect the durability of the overall masonry construction. A person who constructs masonry is called a mason or bricklayer. These are both classified as construction trades. Applications Masonry is commonly used for walls and buildings. Brick and concrete block are the most common types of masonry in use in industrialized nations and may be either load-bearing or non-load-bearing. Concrete blocks, especially those with hollow cores, offer va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
