Alcolea Bridge
Coordinates: 37 ° 56 ′ 12 " N , 4 ° 39 ′ 42" W.
| Alcolea Bridge | ||
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| Official name | Puente de Alcolea | |
| Crossing of | Guadalquivir | |
| place | Cordoba ( Spain ) | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 360 | |
| Number of openings | 20th | |
| opening | 1792 | |
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The Bridge of Alcolea (Spanish: Puente de Alcolea ) is a historic road bridge over the Guadalquivir River in the province of Cordoba in Spain .
location
The bridge is located 10 kilometers northeast of the city of Cordoba between the villages of Alcolea and Los Angeles. The old Spanish national road Carretera Nacional N-IV crossed the Guadalquivir on it, whereas today it only serves as a feeder from Cordoba to the Autovía A-4 Autovía Del Sur in the direction of Madrid .
500 meters downstream there is a railway bridge over the Guadalquivir, which is part of the line from Cordoba to Andujar, from where railway lines lead into the upper Guadalquivir valley to Jaén and north to Madrid. The Madrid – Seville high-speed line operated by the Spanish railways also runs near the Alcolea Bridge .
history
Construction of the bridge, which has 20 arches and a total length of 340 meters, began under the reign of Charles III. around 1785 and lasted until 1792.
Two major war events in Spanish history took place at the bridge:
In the first battle at the Bridge of Alcolea in the Spanish War of Independence on June 17, 1808, the volunteer associations led by Pedro de Echavarri were defeated by the French troops under General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang , who then took and plundered the city of Cordoba.
In the so-called September Uprising after the Third Carlist War , units of the Unión Liberal, led by Francisco Serrano Domínguez , defeated the troops of Queen Isabella II in the second battle at the Bridge of Alcolea on September 28, 1868 .
literature
- Pablo Santiago Chiquero: Historias del Guadalquivir. Seville 2011. ISBN 978-8488067159 .