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Walking alongside the Canal de Alfonso XIII in Seville (I thought it was the river Guadalquivir at the time).

Calle Rey Juan Carlos I

Puente del Cristo de la Expiración

The Bridge of the Holy Christ of the Expiration is an urban bridge in the city of Sevilla spanning the river Guadalquivir and represents the natural outlet of the city to the Alcor and the province of Huelva , was built in 1991.

Steel structure with two arches on sale 130 meter span without support underwater, holding a board of 223 m. x 30 m and 30.5 m wide, designed by José Luis Manzanares Japan , inspired by the Alexandre III Bridge in Paris.

Crosswalks along the bridge are covered with white tarps hanging from masts and relieve the heat of pedestrians.

In 1991 Chapin desaterramiento of which involved the removal of the cut suffered by the Guadalquivir river in this area of ​​the city and recovered more than four new miles of runway, on this occasion is executed the construction of a bridge across the former is decided cutting area. The bridge was built over the riverbed when it still had not pulled the plug ground preventing the passage of water

Its name comes from the nearby Chapel Sponsorship church procession from doing the brotherhood of Christ the End at Easter . Since this christ is popularly known as the "Christ of the Pup", the bridge has also inherited this name. also commonly called "Chapin bridge".

Popular form has also been known this bridge as "bridge léperos" by the fact discussed above that was first built the bridge and after the channel was made to pass the river and match construction with a time when they were in leperos fashion jokes, in which the inhabitants of the town of Huelva appear very gross. The fact that the bridge popularly received that name caused the municipality of Lepe , the April Fools Day 1991, make a practical joke in which he requested that the bridge officially received its name, and the town of Lepe charged a fee for this .

Looking back at the bridge at the Torre Pelli construction site with tall crane.

Construction started in 2007 and is expected to be finished by 2015.

The Cajasol Tower or Torre Pelli , as known in the city, is a building designed by Cesar Pelli currently under construction in an area called Puerto Triana in Seville. The north tower has two lower buildings with a central street. The name of the project in the study of the architect is Seville Tower .

When the project was proposed was sponsored by savings El Monte and Caja San Fernando, you agree to merge in December 2006 to form the savings Cajasol , to be operational in 2007. The box is integrated into the bank CaixaBank in March 2012. Since 2013 Cajasol exists as foundation.

Upon completion it will become the first skyscraper and the tallest building in the city and also in the highest Andalucía , and in the seventh tallest skyscraper in Spain , just after the skyscrapers of Madrid and Benidorm and ahead of cities like Barcelona . Construction of the building is carried out in the southern sector, Isla de la Cartuja with avenues of sponsorship and Inca Garcilaso, in a plot with an area of 59,000 m². On 17 July 2007 the first stone was laid. The tower will have a total height of 180.5 meters . The proposed building has 37 floors and elliptical of reinforced concrete above ground with 3 underground. The facade is made ​​of glass and steel was studied and its protection against the sun with ceramic blades, although the project was changed so that these were aluminum colored tile.