The Triana bridge, officially called Puente de Isabel II, was built just under his reign, between 1845 and 1852. The engineers in charge of its construction were the Frenchmen Bernadet and Steinacher and relied almost in the whole of the construction on a bridge which then existed in his native country, the bridge of the Carrousel.
Of the Carrousel bridge was built in 1834 on the Seine River, in Paris, very close to the now Louvre Museum and was practically equal to the Triana; I say was because unfortunately today already does not exist in the French capital.
Currently, many French may visit Seville admiring and taking pictures to the Triana bridge with the rest of the city without knowing that in his country there was “the original” many years ago, and even Vincent Van Gogh devoted his Impressionist painting to:
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