Neighborhoods and bridges of Elche

Elche has today many neighborhoods, new and traditional, more or less large, but each one of them has its mark of distinction. In the middle of the city are: The Old City, San Juan Raval, Raval in El Salvador, El Raval de Santa Teresa, the Zapatillera neighborhood. In the East from the neighborhoods of the city of ascent: La Lonja, Altabix, Palmeras, San Antón, Nueva Altabix, Travalón, the university area. In the western neighborhoods from Vinalopó: Carrús, Porfirio y Pascual, San Crispín, El Pla de San José, Sector 5, L'Aljub and the Old Cemetery neighborhood.

Elche also has a good part of the bridges. As it passes through Elche, the deep bed of the Vinalopó River reaches 100 meters and divides the city from north to south. To close the gap, Elche has eight bridges and two pedestrian bridges spanning the riverbed, which allowed communication and the growth of the city to the west, where the main media, the Queen Victoria Avenue became the most important commercial center of the new part of the city born of the industrial prosperity of the 1950s and 60s. From these bridges you can get a view of the old city and the canal gardens. The bridges are from north to south as follows:

  • A-7 bridge
  • Bimillennial Bridge
  • Railway bridge
  • Altamira Bridge
  • Market
  • Canalejas Bridge
  • Santa Teresa and the bridge of the Virgin
  • Door of the painter Vincent Albarranch
  • Bridge of the Generalitat
  • Barrachina Bridge

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