Ronda Bridge

•Located in the city of Ronda, southern Spain.
•It is the newest and largest of three bridges that spanned the 120-metre-deep (390 ft) chasm that carries the Guadalevín River.
•Construction started in 1759 and took 34 years.
•There is a chamber above the central arch that was used for a variety of purposes, including as a prison!
•During the 1936–1939 civil war both sides allegedly used the prison as a torture chamber for captured opponents, killing some by throwing them from the windows to the rocks at the bottom of the El Tajo gorge.
•A previous bridge was built at the same spot but ,Unfortunately, this bridge was quickly and poorly built; the entire bridge collapsed in 1741, killing 50 people.

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