The rotating bridge has an iron structure laying on strong establishment (first made of timber and later was supplanted by concrete), with an arrangement of apparatuses associated with an engine that turns the bridges, yet for quite a while that operation has not been performed.
The turn permits the section of vessels, and furthermore the trains when that tremendous edge is opposite to the stream with its two heads connected to the gadgets situated in the land, one in the area of Pueblo Nuevo and another in Matanzas.
The immense work of the steel structure build originated from the United States, was directed to a limited extent to Matanzas in 1903 by the steamer Olinda, and mounted around 50 meters from the mouth of the stream current.
In the city of Matanzas once there were different bridges, yet of stone, yet in 281 years of such productive encounters among those exquisite structures with the platforms in the water, the main washed away have been the Rotary and one named The Butcher situated close to the Plaza del Mercado, who was introduced in 1834, and supplanted in 1882 by another wooden one. The Rotating Bridge withstood the savage surges caused by visit climate occasions that hit this zone as the surge of 1953.
Here the working model presentation of this project:
The turn permits the section of vessels, and furthermore the trains when that tremendous edge is opposite to the stream with its two heads connected to the gadgets situated in the land, one in the area of Pueblo Nuevo and another in Matanzas.
The immense work of the steel structure build originated from the United States, was directed to a limited extent to Matanzas in 1903 by the steamer Olinda, and mounted around 50 meters from the mouth of the stream current.
In the city of Matanzas once there were different bridges, yet of stone, yet in 281 years of such productive encounters among those exquisite structures with the platforms in the water, the main washed away have been the Rotary and one named The Butcher situated close to the Plaza del Mercado, who was introduced in 1834, and supplanted in 1882 by another wooden one. The Rotating Bridge withstood the savage surges caused by visit climate occasions that hit this zone as the surge of 1953.
Here the working model presentation of this project:
