{"id":32695,"date":"2023-05-29T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puente-colgante.com\/inauguracion-y-eco-internacional\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:10:10","slug":"inauguracion-y-eco-internacional","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/puente-colgante.com\/en\/historia\/inauguracion-y-eco-internacional\/","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration and international impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Hanging Bridge (Puente Colgante) was inaugurated on\u00a028th July 1893<\/strong>, a shuttle linking the towns of Las Arenas, on the right bank of the Bilbao river, and Portugalete on the left bank. The massive iron structure, superb testimony to Vizcaya\u2019s significant industrialization at the end of the 19th century, defying the day\u2019s storm. Its\u00a0400,000 rivets<\/strong>\u00a0on steel pieces and its\u00a04 towers each 51 metres high<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 two on each side \u2013 resisting the gusts of wind, helped by\u00a08 metal cables<\/strong>. A 160 metre long deck, towering 45 metres over the estuary, linking the two towns, symbolises the triumph of man and his technology over the adversity of nature and over the difficulty of such a grandiose construction project.
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The official inauguration of the Bizkaia Bridge took place on July 28, 1893, after a little over three years since the start of the construction.
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The transport gondola took people all day following the mass celebrated on board to bless the work. The people enjoyed the new monument without knowing that it would with time become part of the natural landscape of the mouth of Bilbao\u2019s river. A structure which, apart from the gondola and some retouches in 1999 during the last remodelling, has remained the same during the entire 20th century. It was the\u00a0first hanging shuttle bridge in the entire world.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It started with a banquette held at a hotel in Las Arenas
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to which all of the governmental and religious authorities were invited. After the feast a mass was said on board the gondola, and then the priest, the parish priest of San Nicol\u00e1s de Bari, in Algorta,\u00a0blessed the Bridge<\/strong>.<\/p>

After these acts the spectators who had amassed around the construction broke through the controls and swarmed onto the gondola which had to operate right into the evening due to the pressure by the enthusiastic visitors<\/p>

Coinciding with an official visit to the province on 5th August 1893,\u00a0Her Royal Highness Princess Isabel of Borbon<\/strong>\u00a0visited Portugalete to see the new construction. She was so pleasantly surprised that she made the trip more than six times. At the end of the visit she gave Mr Alberto Palacio a signed photograph to commemorate the event.<\/p>

The Vizcaya Hanging Bridge is without doubt the most international work by a unique man, its designer Mr Alberto de Palacio y Elissague. It was the first construction of this type in the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In 1869 (24 years later)\u00a0published a project for a hanging shuttle bridge designed by the engineer\u00a0J.V. Morse<\/strong>\u00a0between New York and Brooklyn, and the first volume of\u00a0Engineering Wonders of the World<\/strong>, published in 1914, contained another project from 1873 (20 years later) by the engineer Charles Smith, between Middlesbrough and Port Clarence. However none of these projects was carried out before the Vizcaya Hanging Bridge.<\/p>

The similarity in the construction with other internationally renowned contemporary iron structures, like the Eiffel Tower, as well as the personal friendship between both designers (Eiffel and Palacio), also contributed to the internationalisation of the Vizcaya Hanging Bridge ( Puente Colgante), less monumentally grand but much more practical.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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His Royal Highness King Alfonso XIII<\/strong>\u00a0visited the Vizcaya Hanging Bridge on board his yacht Giralda on his first visit to Bilbao port to see the new construction work. A massive star was to be hung from the bridge for the visit but unfortunately it fell into the water without fulfilling its ornamental task.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Hanging Bridge (Puente Colgante) was inaugurated on\u00a028th July 1893, a shuttle linking the towns of Las Arenas, on the right bank of the Bilbao river, and Portugalete on the left bank. The massive iron structure, superb testimony to Vizcaya\u2019s significant industrialization at the end of the 19th century, defying the day\u2019s storm. 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