Stephen Branley's photos with the keyword: transporter bridge

Puente Colgante

29 Jul 2019 97
Not a bridge in the truest sense of the word, but the locals call it the 'Puente Colgante' ('hanging bridge'). It's the world's oldest transporter. Designed by Alberto Palacio, one of Gustave Eiffel's disciples and built in 1893. It links the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas in the Biscay province of Spain, north of Bilbao in the Basque Country, crossing the mouth of the Ibaizabal River...