PENJANT BRIDGE

The first suspension bridge, built from 1915 by José Eugenio Ribera to connect the two banks of the Ebro at Amposta, was partially destroyed by the bombings of the Civil War. The bridge that replaced it could not withstand the weight of the Republican exile of 1938, which would lead to its fall, one day before Franco's army seized Amposta. Ernest Hemingway, who was a war correspondent at the time, recounts this episode in his short story "Old Man at the Bridge", in which he recounts a conversation he had with an old man from La Rapità.