Puente Le Salve and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Initial views of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao from the other side of the Nervion River with the Puente Le Salve.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao (Biscay), Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.

The building, designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, was built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city to the Cantabrian Sea. A work of contemporary architecture, it has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something", according to architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts.

La Salve Bridge

The La Salve bridge formerly called the Príncipes de España bridge until its change in 2016, is a bridge over the Bilbao estuary in Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain).

It is called the bridge of the Salve because when the ships arrived at the port of Bilbao through the estuary, at the height of the bridge is the first place where the Virgin of Begoña is seen and there the sailors sang the Salve to her.

Its opening took place on January 9, 1972 and its author was the engineer Juan Batanero García-Geraldo. It was designed at the end of the sixties, to solve the problem of traffic, which was beginning to become saturated in the north of the city. It was also the first in Spain with a brace system and one of the few with a metal deck. It has 23.5 meters of free height for the passage of boats, being fixed.

It is equipped with elevators from its base on the right bank, in the area of La Salve, at the end of Campo de Volantín. These are maintained by the city council, transporting 200,000 passengers annually. They have been free since May 2008.

Next to this bridge, on the left bank of the estuary, is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao . Furthermore, it is curious to contemplate how the architect of this museum wanted to integrate, in a certain way, this bridge into it, building, for this purpose and on its left side, as seen from the Campo de Volantín, a high tower with access stairs. to the museum, which is located on the right side.

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Taken in: Spain / Basque Country / Bilbao (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2024

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