Assut de l'Or Bridge facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Assut de l'Or Bridge (Serreria Bridge) Pont de l'Assut de l'Or
Side view of the Assut de l'Or Bridge with L'Agora in background
Coordinates	39°27′17.3″N 00°20′58.7″W / 39.454806°N 0.349639°W / 39.454806; -0.349639
Carries	six vehicular traffic lanes, two tram lanes, and two pedestrian cycling lanes
Crosses	Turìa Gardens (former riverbed of Turia River)
Locale	Valencia, Spain
Characteristics
Design	cable-stayed bridge with a backward curved pylon
Total length	180 metres
Height	125 metres (making it the highest point of the city)
Number of spans	one with 29 cable stays
History
Architect	Santiago Calatrava
Construction cost	59.9 million Euros
Inaugurated	12/12/2008

The Assut de l'Or Bridge (Valencian: Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Spanish: Puente de la Presa del Oro) is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008. The name l'Assut de l'Or is Valencian for the Dam of the Gold and refers to a dam that was located nearby, although locally it is referred to as El Jamonero (The Ham Holder) or Pont de l'Arpa, Spanish: Puente del Arpa (The Harp Bridge). Calatrava called it the Serreria Bridge.

Design

The bridge crosses the Turia Gardens in southeast Valencia, Spain near the east end of the City of Arts and Sciences complex. Its design is a variant of Santiago Calatrava's 1992 design of a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge in Seville, Spain. In the Serreria bridge, the pylon is curved backward and back-stayed to concrete counterweights in the roadway. The aesthetic effect of the Serreria bridge arises in part from the curved pylon and the 29 parallel cables supporting the bridge deck, accented at night by spot lighting of the cables and the pylon. The bridge deck has two carriageways, three lanes each for cars and one additional lane for a tramway, and a carriageway for only pedestrian and cycle traffic along the middle spine of the deck by the cable stays.

Gallery

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  Assut de l'Or Bridge at night

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  Front cable stays

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  Front cable stays at night

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  Backstays

See also

In Spanish: Puente de l'Assut de l'Or para niños

• Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, in which the forward curved pylon is also back stayed
• The Erasmusbrug in the Netherlands, another single pylon cable-stayed bridge in which the pylon is back stayed