The Ingeniero Carlos Fernández Casado Bridge (''also called: Engineer Carlos Fernández Casado Bridge'') is a

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which wire rope, cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or wikt:stay#Etymology 3, stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, norm ...

that crosses the Barrios de Luna Reservoir in the province of

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. It is part of the Autovia A-66, a major highway. It was inaugurated in 1983 and was the longest cable-stayed bridge by main span from 1983 to 1986. The bridge was designed by

Javier Manterola Javier Manterola Armisén (17 June 1936 – 12 May 2024) was a Spanish civil engineer and professor at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Madrid. Manterola was particularly known for his work as a bridge designer of the engineering firm ''Car ...

in honor of the work that the Spanish bridge engineer Carlos Fernández Casado (1905–1988) had contributed to society.

Design

The bridge's two

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s are 102 and 117 meters high. The span lengths are 101.7, 440.0 and 101.7 meters, with the deck 22.5 meters wide and 2.3 meters deep.Web of Carlos Fernández Casado, S.L.
/ref> The bridge had the largest main span of any bridge in Spain until the inauguration of the La Constitución de 1812 Bridge on September 24, 2015, in the

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External links / Bibliography

Web of Carlos Fernández Casado, S.L.

Information from structurae.net, engineering web

References

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