THE BRIDGES OF THE BADAJOZ CITY

First acquaintance is that of Palms that dates back of the year 1460. The Guadiana was destroyed in in several occasions by rises of the river, being in 1880 the last one of these big avenues. In 1960 there was constructed the second one called of the University (New bridge at the time). Thirty years later, in 1990 the third party named of the Autonomy got up. In 1994 the last one got up of them known as Royal Bridge, which turned into symbol and icon of the city into these moments.

The tragic flood of the year 1996, one has proceeded Trás to a reordering of the riverbeds of his tributaries for the south, the creeks Rivillas and Calamón, that suffered deep remodelings that mllevaron when lost the acquaintance Puente de las Brujas, whereas there got up new others that exist changing the physiognomy of the city into these zones, improving the safety and the communications.

Four long and endless years have had to happen, in order that the distressing landscape that the waters of the Rivillas and of the Calamón left after the tragic flood, turns out to be transformed into bucolic meadows crossed by placid paths, where the children play in zones fenced and endowed due and the walkers take delight in the first hours of the morning or into the beautiful late afternoons of the city.

Scarcely there stay tracks of the immense clay-pits and of the ruined houses, though the local memory remembers that terrible night and, especially, the victims who left us in that one tragically to happen. It is of waiting that these embellished places, they remain like that throughout next months and years, since permanent recollection of that unlucky efeméride. next spring will dress in show these paths. Let's hope that we could continue enjoying them and they are due supported and safeguarded.

Las obras de recuperación del río Guadiana a su paso por Badajoz, se relantizan en exceso, víctimas de reiteradas promesas olvidadas y de la crisis económica que nos envuelve. ¿Cúantos años más habremos de esperar para disfrutar de nuestro río? Los políticos tiene sus prioridades y las mu87estran en los presupuestos. Como siempre, en Badajoz las primesas no se cumplen, bien porque sí, o bien porque los plazos se alargan without any reason.

A few kilometers downstream of the city is currently built the fifth bridge over the Guadiana. It will link the Olivenza road with the IFEBA shopping area and the El Faro Shopping Center. It will be the first of the four phases, which will develop the Ronda Sur de Badajoz, which will in due course link the roads of Seville, Valverde de Leganés, Olivenza and the Madrid - Lisbon highway.

The total length of this section of the Round is 4.01 kilometers, from kilometer point 5 of the EX-107 to a new link in the vicinity of the Fairgrounds of Badajoz. The bridge or viaduct over the Guadiana River and its riverbank has a length of 420 meters and a width of 24 meters with four lanes and central median. Its connections include roundabout paths of 140 meters outside radius.

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