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The neighborhood of Vallcarca and Penitents is one of five that make up the Gracia district and is among the hills of Putxet and Coll. Vallcarca was an old summer town where families sought peace that the city no longer offered. Climbing the slopes of hills, houses were built summer houses coexisted with farmers in many agricultural fields in the area. A landscape that still surprises visitors when they look towards the hills and dotted with small houses are built with a certain urban chaos.

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In 1923 he built the viaduct linking Vallcarca Putxet and Coll hills and passes over the stream Vallcarca. The bridge was one of the first structures built with reinforced concrete with iron city. If you walk over the bridge there is a wonderful view of the neighborhood Vallcarca and hills that surround it.

On one hand, the neck, the other, Putxet, and half a stream that seemed insurmountable until the construction of the bridge. Viaduct Vallcarca is a civil engineer architect Miguel Pascual Tintorer, which first was used reinforced concrete with iron to cement the construction of a stream channels.

Thus, opening the passage between the two hills of Putxet and Coll, vehicles and people were connected, which could cross from side to side. This was also the opening of the district to the city because communications became more fluid.
Pass the viaduct is an experience because there is one of the best views of the city and the sea, because the neighborhood Vallcarca and Penitents is one of the highest points of the city.

Four crown winged lions largest reinforced concrete structure with iron that surprises everyone who comes first in the neighborhood of Vallcarca and Penitents. Vallcarca viaduct is a bridge linking the two peaks of this district and offers stunning views of the city to the sea.

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