THE BRIDGES

This the first known Palmas, which dates from the year 1460. Was partially destroyed by flooding from the river and its last major work took place in 1880. In 1960 they built the second call of the University (then New Bridge). In 1990 he lifted the third, called the Autonomy. Four years after the Royal Bridge, or has become a symbol and icon of the city at that time, today found abandoned, dirty and without his superb lighting.

Following the tragic flood of the year 1996, there has been a realignment of the channels of the rivers Rivillas and Calamón, suffering deep remodeling existing and emerging new ones that are changing the face of the city in those areas, and above all, improving security and communications.

Long and endless years have had to happen four, in order that the distressing landscape that the waters of the Rivillas and of the Calamón left after the tragic, he turns out to be transformed into bucolic meadows crossed by placid paths, where the children play in zones fenced and endowed due and the wayfarers are delighted in the first hours of the morning or in 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 event. Next spring will dress in show these paths. We hope that we prune to continue enjoying them and they are due supported and safeguarded.