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Lusitania Bridge

Coordinates	38°55′00″N 6°21′14″W / 38.916753°N 6.3538°W / 38.916753; -6.3538
Crosses	Guadiana
Locale	Mérida, Spain
Official name	Lusitania Bridge
Characteristics
Total length	465 m (1,525.6 ft)^[1]
Width	11 m (36.1 ft)
Longest span	189 m (620.1 ft)
History
Opened	10 December 1991; 32 years ago (1991-12-10)
Statistics
Toll	Free on both sides
Location

The Lusitania Bridge is a bridge in Mérida, Spain.

History

Lusitania bridge was built over the Guadiana River in 1991 by a Spanish consortium, in order to take the road traffic off from the nearly 2000 years old Romano bridge. The architect was Santiago Calatrava. The bridge takes its name from the fact that Emerita Augusta (present day Merida) was the former capital of Lusitania, an ancient Roman province.

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