The San Pablo Bridge is a girder bridge that crosses the Huécar River in the Spanish city of Cuenca.
The current bridge was preceded by another of the same name, built between 1533 and 1589 on the initiative of Canon Juan del Pozo originally in stone, to save the Huécar sickle, connecting the convent of San Pablo and the urban area. This bridge collapsed.
In 1902 the current iron and wood bridge was built. The project was carried out by the Valencian civil engineer José María Fuster y Tomás, and erected by George H. Bartle, whose foundry, also Valencian, had great renown at that time, being inaugurated on April 19, 1903. It is a bridge rectilinear, 100 meters long in two spans and 60 meters high, supported by the ashlar pillars of the previous bridge and, in the center, by an iron prop.
Part of the heritage of the city of Cuenca, it is one of the best places from which to observe the Hanging Houses.
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