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Linking the roads Guillem de Castro, Blanquerías and Llano de Zaidia,the Puente de San Jose was constructed in the fourteenth century and is one of Valencias oldest bridges.
It was little more than a wooden bridge when it was first built and acted as the gateway from the ‘Portal Nou’ within the city walls to the countryside to the north.
This gateway resembled the towers that still stand today, the Torres de los Serranos and Torres de Quart, but unfortunately the ‘portal nou’ no longer exists.
The initial wood structure was created to facilitate communication with nearby neighbourhoods and Marchalenes Zaidi. As with many [...]

Found along the Del Justicia and the Paseo de la Alameda, Puente de la Exposición is better known as the Puente Calatrava, named after Valencia’s favourite architect Santiago Calatrava.
This hyper-modern bridge was designed by him in the mid 90s. It was built on the site of the old Exposición footbridge which was originally built for the Exposición Regional of 1909.
It was a beautiful bridge of reinforced concrete (one of the first built with this material in the city), but unfortunately it was destroyed by the flood of 1957. In its place rose another rather an ugly bridge and finally in the late [...]

Located on the GV Marqués del Turia across to the Plaza de Zaragoza the Puente De Aragon dates back to 1927 although it wasn’t finished until 1933.
Designed by engineers Arturo Monfort, José Gabriel Burguera and Leyda, this bridge owes its name to the old railway station of Aragon, now defunct.
It extends from the Gran Via Marques de Turia towards the port and because of its construction, it became the Sea Pedestrian Bridge. It has six arches of 25 m and is 167 meters long. It is 30 meters wide with a central driveway and hedged sides along with four sculptures by the [...]

The Puente del Reino is just over 220 meters in length and links two of the major routes within the city – the Reino de Valencia Avenue and the Avenue de France.
The bridge creates direct access from the city centre to the port area. The bridge – the longest and widest in Valencia, has four lanes in each direction and was the seventeenth bridge to be built in the city.
Perhaps the most outstanding part of this project are the four gargoyles, placed in 1999 – completely Gothic-inspired that mark corner entrances. They are known as the “bridge watchers” or the “guardians of [...]

The Puente de las Flores is situated between the Paseo de la Ciudadela and the Avenida de la Alameda.
The most prominent features of its design are the simplicity of its shape and total aesthetic compatibility with the River Turia gardens. In 2002 it was reconstructed with new sidewalks replacing temporary pontoons that failed weight tests.
It is an amazing ‘blooming’ bridge, a living, breathing display of floral beauty. Countless thousands of Euros are spent each year by the local government to painstakingly maintain this splendid sight. The bridge features wooden walkways, cycle paths and access to traffic. The many cosy benches that have [...]

Puente del Real is located on the spot of the early Reconquista, which was a wooden bridge that served the Convent of Santo Domingo.
This bridge is said to have suffered successive interventions from its original site shortly after the conquest of Valencia. Its mission was to facilitate communication between the Royal Palace and the Puerta de Montesa.
It suffered complete devastation in the flood of 1957 and plans were made to build a stone bridge and with grants from the cemetery of the convent of Santo Domingo in 1595 work began. Three years later, the bridge was finished. It was rebuilt in stone with [...]

Valencia has never had a bridge as versatile as it is in the port. It started as a step drawbridge, continued as fixed and is now part of the dial to the Formula 1 street circuit.
The Port was proud of their bridge, a double-leaf bascule bridge for road and rail traffic, but quickly found it would no longer have its original use as a cargo entry point, when Valencia was designated to host the 32nd edition of the Copa America.
Therefore the port had to undergo a transformation and the cargo ships would cease to enter the inner harbour, this area would only be [...]