Assut de l'Or Bridge

The Assut de l'Or Bridge (Valencian: Pont de l'Assut de l'Or, Spanish: Puente de la Presa del Oro) is a white single-pylon cable-stayed bridge in Valencia, Spain designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava and completed in December 2008. The name l'Assut de l'Or is Valencian for the Dam of the Gold and refers to a dam that was located nearby, although locally it is referred to as El Jamonero (The Ham Holder) or Pont de l'Arpa, Spanish: Puente del Arpa (The Harp Bridge). Calatrava called it the Serreria Bridge.

Design
The bridge crosses the Túria Gardens in central Valencia, Spain in its City of Arts and Sciences complex. Its design is a variant of Santiago Calatrava's 1992 design of a cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge in Seville, Spain. In the Serreria bridge, the pylon is curved backward and back-stayed to concrete counterweights in the roadway.  The aesthetic effect of the Serreria bridge arises in part from the curved pylon and the 29 parallel cables supporting the bridge deck, accented at night by spot lighting of the cables and the pylon.  The bridge deck has two carriageways, three lanes each for cars and one additional lane for a tramway, and another for pedestrian and cycle traffic along the middle spine of the deck by the cable stays.

See also
Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, in which the forward curved pylon is also back stayed 
The Erasmusbrug in the Netherlands, another single pylon cable-stayed bridge in which the pylon is back stayed

References

External links
 L´Assut de l´Or Bridge (Serreria Bridge), Valencia, Spain (2009), Luis Viñuela y José Martínez Salcedo

Category:Bridges in the Valencian Community
Category:Bridges completed in 2008
Category:Bridges by Santiago Calatrava
Category:Buildings and structures in Valencia
Category:Transport in the Valencian Community
Category:Tourist attractions in Valencia