Innovative bridge in San Sebastián.

Basque city of San Sebastián.

In 1893 a temporary wooden walkway was built that would allow direct access from downtown to the North Station, the bullfighting arena or the velodrome. On day 19, before the opening of the new bridge, the suspension was driving on the old wooden bridge, for its subsequent destruction.

The final bridge was inaugurated on January 20, 1905, festivity of Saint Sebastian.

The Caja de Ahorros of the municipality had funded the construction of the bridge with a credit to one hundred years without interest. Ribera and Zapata had been the authors of the project and Marcelo Sarasola and José de Goicoa, engineer and municipal architect, respectively.

On the bridge highlighted the four monumental obelisks, located at its ends, copies of the Alexander III bridge in Paris, of 18 metres of high, crowned by sculptural groups. It was built on reinforced concrete, which was a novelty for that time, with three arches of 24 metres of long, with 20 metres of wide and 88 of long.