General Information
| Other name(s): | Puente San Luisito |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Pedestrian bridge (footbridge) |
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| Structure: |
Tied-arch bridge |
| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico |
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| Coordinates: | 25° 39' 49.10" N 100° 18' 58.42" W |
Technical Information
Materials
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
El puente del Papa (The Pope's Bridge) is a bridge located in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, across the usually dry Río Santa Catarina. It took its name when Pope John Paul II offered a Catholic mass over the bridge.
A flea market by the same name used to install itself under the bridge during weekends, but after hurricane "Alex" struck the city, among many things, there was a shift in the way traffic was directed and the flea market ceased to exist.
Before the Pope John Paul II visited Monterrey, the bridge was called "Puente San Luisito" (St. Little Louis' Bridge), as it connected the "San Luisito" neighborhood, (today, Independencia neighborhood) with Monterrey Downtown, across the Santa Catarina River. The name of "Puente San Luisito" was the name of the bridge for over a century, and in just 20 years, it has been completely forgotten.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "El Puente del Papa" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20042933 - Published on:
11/01/2009 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
