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("Cartuja island").{{cite web , url=http://www.sevillainfo.com/sevilla/monumentos/sevilla_puente_barqueta.php , title=Monumentos: Puentes de Sevilla , website=www.sevillainfo.com , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051220131315/http://sevillainfo.com/sevilla/monumentos/sevilla_puente_barqueta.php , archive-date=2005-12-20 It was built between 1989 and 1992, on the occasion of the Universal Exposition Expo'92, and conceived as the main gate for this.

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Barqueta Barqueta World's fair architecture in Seville Seville Expo '92 Bridges over the Guadalquivir River