Puente del Mar

Valencia


One of the most attractive of the Turia's old bridges, this elegant stone Renaissance span was commissioned in 1591 to replace a wooden bridge that had been swept away by flooding. Pride of place goes to the little pavilions housing images of the Virgin Mary and St Pascual Baylón, a 16th-century friar and mystic.


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