Good news for those who live and work in the Leonese town of Sahagún, one of the important points of Camino de Santriago Francés. And one of its heritage jewels, the Singing Bridge, Built by the Romans to overcome the Cea River by the Romans and rebuilt centuries later, in the 18th century. In fact, currently only the beginning of the original structures remains, specifically those of the eastern abutment and the first, second and fourth piers.
Already in the 19th century, specifically in 1880, paving was carried out on the first spur of the bridge with the aim of reinforcing the foundations of the piers and cleaning up the channel as the bridge passes. A work designed by the architect Eduardo Galán Mendizábal, and in which reused material was used. In fact, you tell the chronicles of the time that They reused ashlars from a demolished chapel of the Monastery of San Benito, under the administration of the then Abbot Fray José Velázquez. The parapets were built between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
FOUNTAIN: THE REASON
