San Jorge Bridge

The San Jorge Bridge, is a bridge located in Alcoy, Valencian Community, Spain, crossing the Serpis River. The fashion of the bridge is the artwork deco, is considered to be the most popular picture of the city. It is one of the most consultant art deco works in the Valencian Community and of the most giant of this architectural fashion in Spain. The authors of the bridge had been the architect Víctor Cune and the engineers Carmelo Monzón Reparaz and Vicente Redon. They possessed the collaboration of the civil engineer Alfonso Pena Boeuf for the duration of his execution. The bridge possesses a duration of 245 meters and a height of 45,forty meters on the Riquer river.

It is positioned in Alcoy's city middle, speaking the ancient center with the widening that was foreseen to open in the regions known as the Horta Major. The mission of a viaduct turned into included inside the plans of city development at the ends of the 19th century, it seems in the year 1876. But the work does not materialize up to the summer season of 1923 for concession to the Navarrese organization Erroz and San Martín. The works started out in 1925, the usage of reinforced concrete as cloth and with the personal forms of the art déco fashion. The props are of ashlars and masonry and it possesses four foremost helps. The paintings changed into financed by way of the municipality of Alcoy and it had a budget of 1.336.824 of pesetas and 6 years of works. It was inaugurated on March 26, 1931.