PUENTE NUEVO SPAIN

Puente Nuevo, Ronda's 'new bridge' was completed in 1793, after 40 years in construction and after the loss of the lives of 50 builders constructing the span bridging the 98m Tajo gorge.

The bridge bisects Ronda into new town (mercadillo, 'little market') and old (La Ciudad).

The project was first proposed by King Felipe V in 1735, to improve an earlier and impossibly steep 16th century bridge, the Puente Viejo, located 150m upstream from this Puente Nuevo and 50m further the 12th century Moorish bridge by the old Arab baths.